City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire

Author/Contributor(s):	Tzanetou, Angeliki
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	08/01/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.