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The Oresteia
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: Greek Tragedy in New Translati
Release Date : 2003
The Oresteia written by Aeschylus and has been published by Greek Tragedy in New Translati this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Drama categories.
"In this new translation the strangeness of the original Greek and its enduring human truth come alive in language that is remarkable for its unrelenting poetic intensity, its rich metaphorical texture, and a verbal density that can at times modulate into the simplest expressions.
Oresteia
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Author : Aeschylus,
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-11-13
Oresteia written by Aeschylus, and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Drama categories.
The Oresteian trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) established the themes of Greek tragedy - the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. The plays dramatize the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, the revenge of her son Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athens. This new translation seeks to preserve the plays' qualities as theatre and as literature.
The Oresteia
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-01-29
The Oresteia written by Aeschylus and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Drama categories.
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. When originally performed it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed following the trilogy; it has not survived. The term "Oresteia" may have originally referred to all four plays, but today is generally used to designate only the surviving trilogy. The only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays, the Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. A principal theme of the trilogy is the shift from the practice of personal vendetta to a system of litigation. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father after his mother's affair with Aegisthus.Aeschylus (circa 525 BC – 455 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times.
The Oresteia
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1984-02-07
The Oresteia written by Aeschylus and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-02-07 with Drama categories.
One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneia’s mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electra’s encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years. The trilogy is presented here in George Thomson’s classic translation, renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and richness of the original Greek.
The Oresteia
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Author : Aeschylus,
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-24
The Oresteia written by Aeschylus, and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.
The Oresteia
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Author : Anne Lebeck
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1971
The Oresteia written by Anne Lebeck and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Drama categories.
Aeschylus S The Oresteia
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Release Date : 1988
Aeschylus S The Oresteia written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Chelsea House Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Drama categories.
The Oresteia Trilogy Unabridged English Translation
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-12
The Oresteia Trilogy Unabridged English Translation written by Aeschylus and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-12 with Poetry categories.
The trilogy known as The Oresteia, consists of the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides. This trilogy of plays, written a number of years B.C.E., dramatizes one of the earliest, most culturally significant myths of Ancient Greek civilization—how a series of revenge/power-motivated murders in the family of King Agamemnon of Mycenae eventually leads to the establishment of democratic justice. One of the few surviving complete examples of Classical Greek drama, the trilogy is populated by archetypal characters, whose actions explore themes relating to the nature and purpose of revenge, and the relationship between humanity and spirituality (the gods). Aeschylus was the earliest of the great Greek tragedians and the principal creator of Greek drama. He is called the 'Father of Tragedy'.
The Oresteia Agamemnon Women At The Graveside Orestes In Athens
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-23
The Oresteia Agamemnon Women At The Graveside Orestes In Athens written by Aeschylus and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Drama categories.
This spellbinding, groundbreaking translation reenergizes Aeschylus’ enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice, and the efforts to bring peace after generations of strife. The most renowned of Aeschylus’ tragedies and one of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, afflicted queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband’s return from war to commit a terrible act of retribution for the murder of her daughter. The next two plays, radically retitled here as The Women at the Graveside and Orestes in Athens, deal with the aftermath of the regicide, Orestes’ search to avenge his father’s death, and the ceaseless torment of the young prince. A powerful discourse on the formation of democracy after a period of violent chaos, The Oresteia has long illuminated the tensions between loyalty to one’s family and to the greater community. Now, Oliver Taplin’s “vivid and accessible translation” (Victoria Mohl) captures the lyricism of the original, in what is sure to be a classic for generations to come.
The Oresteia
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Author : Aeschylus Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-06-06
The Oresteia written by Aeschylus Aeschylus and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with Fiction categories.
Sleep on! awake! what skills your sleep to me-- Me, among all the dead by you dishonoured-- Me from whom never, in the world of death, Dieth this curse, "'Tis she who smote and slew", And shamed and scorned I roam? Awake, and hear My plaint of dead men's hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved, Me doth no god arouse him to avenge, Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands.