@funnyvidspd yea but you know it happen to be the oldest play ever... that's kinda more important than the fact that he won the first place at a dyonisian party.
@13mehrnaz Yes, obviously. This is the *oldest* play ever that we have on historical record. No play composed before this one exists in any writings that we know of.
This is awesome! Great stuff, I was looking around because I am doing a production of this soon in New York. Wanted to whet my appetite a little bit, and I certainly succeeded!
@nimz021 The oldest surviving play in the history of theater, actually.
It's _The Persians_, by legendary Athenian tragic playwright Aeschylus, and it premiered in 472 BCE as part of the trilogy that won the drama prize at that year's City Dionysia festival.
@PersianAfghani lol. The play is about The Persians after the crippling defeat when Xerxes set out to conquer the whole of Greece. All the characters are Persians in their homeland!
Νο... Τhis is an ancient Greek play, a tragedy performed by Greek actors in contemporary greek language. It is one of the oldest anti-war plays ever written. When it was first performed in Ancient Athens the audience was so moved by the lament of the persians for their dead in the war against the Greeks, that they burst into tears although the persians were their enemies. Because of this the city-state authorities FINED the writter.
@theo9952 I'm not certain that this was an anti-war play. The persians had to be stopped, and I don't think the play questions that in the slightest; just look at how arrogent and hubristic Xerxes was! He deigned to enslave all of Greece.
Aschelus won first place with this play, the year it was written! It's a cool play, but not much acting!
funnyvidspd 3 months ago
@funnyvidspd yea but you know it happen to be the oldest play ever... that's kinda more important than the fact that he won the first place at a dyonisian party.
razvanift 1 month ago
wow, that's really cool! i wanna see it
xaouqinz 4 months ago
this is not persian but I assume the story might related to them
13mehrnaz 6 months ago
@13mehrnaz Yes, obviously. This is the *oldest* play ever that we have on historical record. No play composed before this one exists in any writings that we know of.
antismatic 1 week ago
I am amazed with this wondrous creation of Aeschylus!
nixter888 8 months ago
This is awesome! Great stuff, I was looking around because I am doing a production of this soon in New York. Wanted to whet my appetite a little bit, and I certainly succeeded!
Cheers!
fightitright5luv 10 months ago
Any way to get ahold of the entire thing?
Lewclan 10 months ago
wtf is this?
nimz021 10 months ago
@nimz021 The oldest surviving play in the history of theater, actually.
It's _The Persians_, by legendary Athenian tragic playwright Aeschylus, and it premiered in 472 BCE as part of the trilogy that won the drama prize at that year's City Dionysia festival.
antismatic 1 week ago
Because the play was written about Aeschylus's experinces in the battle of salamis
masterchief12100 1 year ago
What does this have to do anything with Persians?
PersianAfghani 1 year ago
@PersianAfghani lol. The play is about The Persians after the crippling defeat when Xerxes set out to conquer the whole of Greece. All the characters are Persians in their homeland!
fightitright5luv 10 months ago
@fightitright5luv all these people featured in the video are Persian? & what language are they speaking?
PersianAfghani 10 months ago
@PersianAfghani
Νο... Τhis is an ancient Greek play, a tragedy performed by Greek actors in contemporary greek language. It is one of the oldest anti-war plays ever written. When it was first performed in Ancient Athens the audience was so moved by the lament of the persians for their dead in the war against the Greeks, that they burst into tears although the persians were their enemies. Because of this the city-state authorities FINED the writter.
theo9952 9 months ago
@theo9952 I'm not certain that this was an anti-war play. The persians had to be stopped, and I don't think the play questions that in the slightest; just look at how arrogent and hubristic Xerxes was! He deigned to enslave all of Greece.
antismatic 1 week ago