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Aeschylus II - The Oresteia by Aeschylus; Richmond Lattimore (Translator, Editor); Mark Griffith (Editor, Translator); David Grene (Translator, Editor); Glenn W. Most (Editor, Translator)
Category: Accessories | Series: The\Complete Greek Tragedies Ser.
Aeschylus II contains "The Oresteia," translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus," translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, stud ...Show more
Aeschylus - Plays II - The Oresteia; Agamemnon; the Libation-Bearers; the Eumenides by Aeschylus; Frederic Raphael (Translator); Kenneth McLeish (Translator); J. Michael Walton (Editor); Stephen Raphael
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Four of Aeschylus'' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Includes the Oresteia trilogy, a key sequence of plays within the Western dramatic tradition - widely studied in schools and universities. Agamemnon tells the tale of the king''s return from the battle of Troyto f ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians by Aeschylus
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S ...Show more
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles (trans.)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebra ...Show more
The Oresteia - Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides by Aeschylus; George Thomson (Translator); Richard Seaford (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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 st ...Show more
The Oresteia - Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens by Aeschylus; Oliver Taplin (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
The most renowned of Aeschylus' tragedies and one of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, afflicted queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband's return from war to commit a terrible act o ...Show more
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
Category: Non-Fiction
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of t ...Show more
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