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| Author | : Robin Mitchell-Boyask |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2013-12-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1472519639 |
The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of the controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy of Athens and the dramas it produced during the City Dionysia, and over the representation of women in the theatre and their implied status in Athenian society. The "Eumenides" enacts the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been ordered under the threat of punishment by the god Apollo to murder his mother Clytemnestra, who had earlier killed Agamemnon.In the "Eumenides", Orestes, hounded by the Eumenides (Furies), travels first to Delphi to obtain ritual purgation of his mother's blood, and then, at Apollo's urging, to Athens to seek the help of Athena, who then decides herself that an impartial jury of Athenians should decide the matter. Aeschylus thus presents a drama that shows a growing awareness of the importance of free will in Athenian thought through the mythologized institution of the first jury trial.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1973-07-26 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0141906294 |
Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) 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. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1989-11-09 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521284301 |
Professor Sommerstein presents here a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the final play in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2013-04-08 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1627930280 |
This classic trilogy by the great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-10-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781016258470 |
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| Author | : David Grene |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : Greek drama |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Vayos Liapis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2018-07-27 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1527514676 |
Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. In this volume, ten scholars from Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been reimagined and rewritten in modern Greek drama and poetry. The book’s extensive coverage includes major modern Greek authors, such as Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos, as well as less well-known, but equally rich and rewarding, 20th- and 21st-century texts.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780812216271 |
From the Penn Greek Drama Series, this volume offers translations by David Slavitt of the great trilogy of the House of Atreus, telling of Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, and of Electra's rebelliousness and Orestes's ultimate revenge.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2014-08-06 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0375712682 |
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.
| Author | : Aeschylus |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2010-03-02 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 086547916X |
In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions -- Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes, giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. --from publisher description.
