Atossa

Also known as: Atoss / Atoss. · Family: Persian · Role: queen and mother of Xerxes · First appears: Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 1

Life events

• Atossa performs offerings and summons Dareios from the dead to advise the Persians.(Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 4)
  • With: Dareios
  • “But ye, my friends, o'er these libations poured In honour of the dead, chant forth your hymns, And call upon Dareios as a God:”
• Atossa reveals that Xerxes’s entire army has been lost near Athens.(Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 4 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Xerxes
  • “Not so, but all the host is lost near Athens.”

Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 1

• child: Xerxes “Mother of Xerxes, reverend in thine age,”
• married with Dareios “Wife of Dareios! hail!”

Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 2

• child: Xerxes (Atossa's son in the dream is identified as Xerxes.) “And my son falls low, and then His father comes, Dareios, pitying him. And lo! when Xerxes sees him, he his clothes Rends round his limbs.”

Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 4

• child: Xerxes “Such things the o'er-hasty Xerxes learns from others, / By intercourse with men of evil counsel;”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.