The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides 978-0140443332

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they mov

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
978-0140443332

In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody c

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First presented in the spring of 458 B.C.E. at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won

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Libation Bearers is the ‘middle’ play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus’Oresteia, f

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The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the “Oresteia of Aeschylus”, consistin

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Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of t

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The “Eumenides”, the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the “Oresteia”, is not only one of the

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