Oresteia (Owc) * 2008

*Oresteia is the collective name given to the three plays by Aeschylus, the founder of Greek tragedy, on the story of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes
*This new translation is deliberately faithful to the original in meaning and tone, reproducing the dignity of Aeschylus' verse
*Introduction offers an appreciation of the Oresteia in the context of dramatic poetry then and now
*Detailed notes explain mythical, historical, and cultural phenomena and trace the complex linking of ideas and language in the plays
*The translation uses the most authoritative critical edition of the Greek text
*Includes textual appendix and map

Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides

Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced a great dramatic genre, as well as giving its three plays their lasting significance. In this family history, Fate
and the gods decree that each generation will repeat the crimes and endure the suffering of their forebears. When Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son Orestes must avenge his father's death. Only Orestes' appeal to the goddess
Athena saves him from his mother's Furies, breaking the bloody chain