The Oresteian Trilogy
by Aeschylus
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0140440674
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440676
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Synopsis
‘Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a house’s life With darkness, treachery and strife’ (47 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. Philip Vellacott’s verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039544
- Title
- The Oresteian Trilogy
- Author
- Aeschylus
- Illustrator
- Trans Philip Vellacott
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0140440674
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440676
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- GRECE GREEK DRAMA TRAGEDY AESCHYLUS ORESTIEA AGAMEMNON CHOEPHOROI LIBATION BEARERS EUMENIDES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greek Tragedy; Greek Drama - Ancient; Aeschylus;
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