Aeschylus and Gilbert Murray [Editor]

The Persians [Persae]

New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine. Item #005874

Green cloth, 92pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown. Spine a bit faded, light wear on edges o/w fine. This play, translated into English rhyming verse, "was first acted in 472 BC, eight years after the Battle of Salamis" It is often described of as a historical play.

Price: $40.00