Oresteia

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Oresteia

Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

Plays, playscripts Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: plays and playwrights Ancient history

Author: Aeschylus

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Collection: Bloomsbury Revelations

Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury Academic

Published on: 24th April 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 304 pages

ISBN: 9781472521705


Introduction

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 millennia later.

Edition Details

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.

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