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CHARACTERS*
CHORUS of old men
DARIUS' Ghost
MESSENGER
ATOSSA
XERXES
Scene: The play is set in Susa. The permanent scene-front
represents a building whose nature cannot now be deter-
mined; a separate structure representing DARIUS' tomb may
also have been present. A CHORUS of elderly men, probably
twelve in number, enters by the righthand side entrance, or
parados; they are dressed in suitably rich and exotic-looking
robes, perhaps over the patterned trousers of the type worn
by Asiatics on Greek vases. They chant the opening lines as
they enter.
CHORUS We are the ones whom the Persians gone
To the land of Greece left behind
And entitled trustees of their rich
Estates laden with gold. Our years
Made Lord Xerxes, King, 5
S . . .
