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A new edition, with Introduction and Commentary, of Aeschylus' Persae, first produced in 472 BC. A. F. Garvie argues that the play is a genuine tragedy, which, far from presenting a simple moral of hybris punished by the gods, poses questions concerning human suffering to which there are no easy answers.

This remains "the major book on Aeschylus' "Supplices, its dating and the trilogy to which it belonged. Its first appearance. (1969) was a full response to the publication of a papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus which indicated a late production date (in the 460s BC) for the play, thus upsetting the previous consensus that it was an early work -- indeed the earliest Greek tragedy to survive. There was, the book argues, no longer good reason to ...

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The emphasis throughout this book, aimed at late school and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. A brief concluding chapter draws together what has been said in the seven studies of the individual plays.