The Oresteian Trilogy
Agamemnon; the Choephori; the Eumenides
$26.32
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 December 1963
Summary
Three powerful plays on revenge, fate, and justice:
Agamemnon
Aeschylus set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero’s discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife’s infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand.
The Choephori
Clytemnestra’s crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140440676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140440674 |
| Author: | Aeschylus, Philip Vellacott |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 December 1963 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Aeschylus
Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, and his epitaph represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived.
Philip Vellacott has translated Aeschylus and Euripides for the Penguin Classics. He taught classics at Dulwich College for twenty-four years and lectured on Greek Drama in the USA. He was also a Visiting Lecturer in the University of California. He died in 1997.
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