At the Persian court, news arrives of Xerxes' catastrophic naval defeat at Salamis, and the ghost of the dead king Darius rises to warn against the hubris that caused it.
Books that mention The Persians (1)
The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault: “there came back to me my own childish voice, declaiming the Messenger from Salamis, in Aischylos's The Persians”