Oresteia - Brossura

Aeschylus

Brossura

ISBN 10: 019953781X ISBN 13: 9780199537815

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

Riassunto

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 father's death. Only Orestes' appeal to the goddess Athena saves him from his mother's Furies, breaking the bloody chain; together gods and humans inaugurate a way of just conduct that will ensure stable families and a strong community.

The Oresteia is majestic as theatre and as literature, and this new translation seeks to preserve both these qualities. The introduction and notes emphasize the interconnection of scenes, ideas, and language that distinguishes this unique work.
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Su questo libro

L'autore

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

Contenuti

• Agamemnon
• Libation Bearers
• Eumenides

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 019953781X
• ISBN 13: 9780199537815
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 320