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Aeschylus

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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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 336 pages | ISBN 9780140443332 | 29 Sep 1977 | Penguin Classic
The Oresteia
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, its 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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