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Aeschylus ca 525456 BCE the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the worlds great art forms witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca 499 and 458 and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production though Sophocles beat him at least onceOf his total of about eighty plays seven survive complete The second volume contains the complete Oresteia trilogy comprising Agamemnon LibationBearers and Eumenides presenting the murder of Agamemnon by his wife the revenge taken by their son Orestes the pursuit of Orestes by his mothers avenging Furies his trial and acquittal at Athens Athenas pacification of the Furies and the blessings they both invoke upon the Athenian people
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama tragedies comedies and satyr plays It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes and Menander
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama tragedies comedies and satyr plays It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes and Menander
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Paperbacks 2 BOOK SET Aeschylus I and II Pages are clean and unmarked Covers show minor shelving wear Previous owners name emboss stamped a light circular indent with no ink on front covers
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These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasketRobert Brustein The New RepublicThis is it No qualifications Go out and buy it everybodyKenneth Rexroth The NationThe translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic their idiom is contemporaryThey have life and speed and suppleness of phraseTimes Education SupplementThese translations belong to our time A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is deadWarren D Anderson American OxonianThe critical commentaries and the versions themselvesare fresh unpretentious above all functionalCommonwealGrene is one of the great translatorsConor Cruise OBrien London Sunday TimesRichmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poetDudley Fitts New York Times Book Review
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First presented in the spring of 458 BCE at the festival of Dionysus in Athens Aeschylus trilogy Oresteia won the first prize Comprisingnbspthree playsAgamemnon Libation Bearers and The Furiesit is the only surviving example of the ancient trilogy form for Greek tragedies This drama of the House of Atreus catches everyone in a bloody net Queen Clytaemestra of Argos murders her husband Agamemnon Their son Orestes avenges his father by killing his mother The Furies hideous deities who punish the murder of blood kin pursue Orestes Into this horrific cycle steps Athena goddess of wisdom who establishes the rule of law to replace fatal vengeance Orestes is tried in court before a jury of Athenians and found not guilty Athena transforms the Furies into benevolent goddesses and extols the virtue of mercy An important historical document as well as gripping entertainment the Oresteia conveys beliefs and values of the ancient Athenians as they established the worlds first great democracy Aeschylus 52544565 BCE was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides In this trilogy he created a new dramatic form with characters and plot infused with spellbinding emotion David Mulroys fluid accessible English translation with its rhyming choral songs does full justice to the meaning and theatricality of the ancient Greek In an introduction and appendixes he provides cultural background for modern readers actors and students
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This volume presents the Greek text of the three plays of Aeschylus Oresteia Agamemnon Libation Bearers Eumenides as edited by Herbert Weir Smyth with a parallel verse translation by Ian Johnston on facing pages which will be useful to those wishing to read the English translation while referring to the Greek original or vice versa
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A Bold Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia the poet translator and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visionsAischylos Agamemnon Sophokles Elektra and Euripides Orestesgiving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance After the murder of her daughter Iphegenia by her husband Agamemnon Klytaimestra exacts a mothers revenge murdering Agamemnon and his mistress Kassandra Displeased with Klytaimestras actions Apollo calls on her son Orestes to avenge his fathers death with the help of his sister Elektra In the end Orestes driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family and Elektra are condemned to death by the people of Argos and must justify their actionssignaling a call to change in society a shift from the capricious governing of the gods to the rule of manmade law Carsons accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy opening up the plays to a modern audience In addition to its accessibility the wit and dazzling morbidity of her prose sheds new light on the saga for scholars Anne Carsons Oresteia is a watershed translation a deathdance of vengeance and passion not to be missed
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Simon Goldhill focuses on the plays themesjustice sexual politics violence and the role of man in ancient Greek culturein this general introduction to Aeschylus Oresteia one of the most important and influential of all Greek dramas After exploring how Aeschylus constructs a myth for the city in which he lived a final chapter considers the influence of the Oresteia on more contemporary theater The volumes organized structure and guide to further reading will make it an invaluable reference for students and teachers First Edition Hb 1992 052140293X First Edition Pb 1992 0521408539
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This commentary discusses Aeschylus play Agamemnon 458 BC which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies and is the first to be published in English since 1958 It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time and includes a reprint of D L Pages Oxford Classical Text of the play The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia trilogy as a whole and the historical context in which the plays were produced It discusses Aeschylus handling of the traditional myth and the main ideas which underpin his overall design such as the development of justice and the nature of human responsibility and it emphasizes how the power of words seen as ominous speechacts which can determine future events makes a central contribution to the plays dramatic momentum Separate sections explore Aeschylus use of theatrical resources the role of the chorus and the solo characters Finally there is an analysis of Aeschylus distinctive poetic style and use of imagery and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions
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This commentary discusses Aeschylus play Agamemnon 458 BC which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies and is the first to be published in English since 1958 It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time and includes a reprint of D L Pages Oxford Classical Text of the play The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia trilogy as a whole and the historical context in which the plays were produced It discusses Aeschylus handling of the traditional myth and the main ideas which underpin his overall design such as the development of justice and the nature of human responsibility and it emphasizes how the power of words seen as ominous speechacts which can determine future events makes a central contribution to the plays dramatic momentum Separate sections explore Aeschylus use of theatrical resources the role of the chorus and the solo characters Finally there is an analysis of Aeschylus distinctive poetic style and use of imagery and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions
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