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Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1984-02-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 110104263X |
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One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneia’s mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electra’s encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years. The trilogy is presented here in George Thomson’s classic translation, renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and richness of the original Greek.
Author | : Robert J Milch |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2001-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0544179382 |
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Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1973-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141906294 |
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Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.
Author | : Aeschylus, |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472521870 |
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First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781016258470 |
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Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Clytemnestra (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert J. Milch |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822001287 |
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Includes the life of Aeschylus, background of Greek tragedy, Aristotle on Tragedy, the dramatic works of Aeschylus, and more.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781539746379 |
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The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Erinyes. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The only extant example of an ancient Greek theater trilogy, the Oresteia won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BC. When originally performed, it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play that would have followed the trilogy. Proteus has not survived, however. In all likelihood the term "Oresteia" originally referred to all four plays; today it generally designates only the surviving trilogy. Many consider the Oresteia to be Aeschylus' finest work. Principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta to organized litigation.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Agamemnon (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : |
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