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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Aeschylus |
| Editors: |
Alan Shapiro |
| Narrator: |
Hollywood Theater of the Ear |
| Fiction Genre: |
Drama · Literary Criticism |
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Times Literary Supplement: "Ted Hughes's free-verse ORESTEIA, posthumously published, stands to Aeschylus roughly as Pope's ILIAD does to Homer. It has that kind of dependence and that kind of autonomy, both reusing and changing phrases, images, whole speeches; and though unlikely to be thought of in quite the same breath as Pope's version, it is, at its best, the most powerful and compelling English version of Greek tragedy in existence." |
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Format: Hardcover, 496
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library (January 31, 2009)
Measurements: 6.75"(h) x 4.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.84 lbs.
ISBN: 9780674996281 |
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One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the <i>Oresteia </i>of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.<br><br>The three plays of the <i>Oresteia </i>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 Iphigeneia’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 vengeance in the royal house of Atreus, the <i>Oresteia</i> serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years.<br><br>The trilogy is presented here in George Thomson’s classic translation renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and multilayered ric |
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