Oresteia
$18.95
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2008
Summary
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 fat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199537815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019953781X |
| Author: | Aeschylus, Christopher Collard |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Christopher Collard was Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1975 until his retirement in 1996. He has published annotated editions of Euripides’ Suppliant Women, Hecuba, and Select Fragmentary Plays.
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