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The Oresteia

Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

Aeschylus - Author

Robert Fagles - Translator

W. B. Stanford - Introduction by

W. B. Stanford - Notes by

W. B. Stanford - Glossary

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ISBN 9780140443332 | 336 pages | 07 Feb 1984 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity— Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, it's spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.
The Oresteia - Aeschylus

Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Reading of "The Oresteia": The Serpent and the Eagle

AESCHYLUS: THE ORESTEIA

Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides

The Geneaology of Orestes
Select Bibliography
Notes:
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides
Glossary

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