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The Oresteia by Aeschylus (1995, Paperback) 
The Oresteia by Aeschylus (1995, Paperback)

 
The Oresteia by Aeschylus (1995, Paperback)

Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Tuttle Pub
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Series: Everyman's Library (Paper)
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0460875485
ISBN-13: 9780460875486
Product ID: EPID42571
Description: Though Aeschylus specialized in the tragic trilogy, "Oresteia" is the only surviving example by an ancient playwright. A form that was not picked up by his successors, the trilogy traditionally consists of three connected tragedies follo...
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Though Aeschylus specialized in the tragic trilogy, "Oresteia" is the only surviving example by an ancient playwright. A form that was not picked up by his successors, the trilogy traditionally consists of three connected tragedies followed by a satyr play. ("Proteus", the satyr play in this work, is lost.) "Oresteia" follows the life of Agamemnon from the end of the Trojan War, tracing the cycle of violence that plagues his family. After Atreus, Agamemnon's father, fools his brother Thyestes into eating his own children, revenge is exacted by Aegisthus, Thyestes' son, who kills Agamemnon after taking his wife as a lover. Agamemnon's son Orestes then avenges his father's death by killing both Aegisthus and his own mother. Orestes then becomes the object of revenge himself, set upon by the Furies at the orders of his mother's ghost. Only Athena can stop the bloodshed by holding a trial that acquits Orestes and eventually placates the Furies.

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Publication Date:1995-03-01
Series:Everyman's Library (Paper)
Editor:Michael Ewans

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Height:7.8 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Agamemnon, king o Argos , returns to Greece triumphant following victory over Troy-only to be brutally murdered by his wife Klytaimestra. Their son Orestes returns from exile and, commanded by the god Apollo, reluctantly murders her in retribution for his father's death. He flees to Delphi, and then to Athens, pursued by Furies intent on avenging Klytaimestra's death. The goddess Athena founds the court of the Areopagus to try the case, and Apollo and the Furies argue over Orestes' future. Can the court stop further bloodshed inside the house of A treus-and can the Athenians escape the consequences, if they acquit Orestes?

Industry Reviews
"The problem is not that Hughes adapts or adds to the poem....But Hughes's changes move out and away from the text rather than deeper into it."
New York Times Book Review - Garry Wills (09/05/1999)

"[T]his vivid free-verse translation of Aeschylus' dark and bloody tragic trilogy...evinces Hughes's wide range of interests and mastery of classic literatures....[A]n essential further installment in the always interesting oeuvre of a gifted poet who was also a diligent scholar."
Dawidoff

"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."
Times Literary Supplement - Michael Silk (12/17/1999)

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