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. Page's Oxford Classical Text of the play.
Added by: ficklefeet | Karma: 10.74 | Fiction literature | 13 December 2011
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Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) - OUP
(This is a scanned copy of the book by the name The Complete Aeschylus: Volume 1, published by OUP. It only has the first play of the great Oresteia trilogy: Agamemnon.) Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides.
The Complete Aeschylus - Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 8 December 2011
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The Complete Aeschylus - Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.