# Late-twentieth-century productions use Persians as a West-versus-Asia war text

Date: 1993

## The fact

Around the 1991 Gulf War and after, public productions and reviews staged Persians as a usable play about a Western victory over an Eastern empire. The 472 play is transmitted; the 1990s frame is modern.

## Context

A play that names Persian dead can be lament and can be a polarising war poster. The Perseus text row stored access.

[Aeschylus](/people/aeschylus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Guardian — modern Oresteia / Greek tragedy production reporting (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/21/theatre1; The Guardian).

## Significance

Do not write that Aeschylus planned 1991. Do not ignore the poster.

Do not write that Aeschylus planned 1991. Do not ignore the poster.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Aeschylus: https://factrail.ai/people/aeschylus

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/21/theatre1
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0011

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-persians-as-war-propaganda-reception