An Oresteia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Oresteia write by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2010-03-02. An Oresteia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Orestes and Other Plays
Orestes and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orestes and Other Plays write by Euripides. This book was released on 2006-02-23. Orestes and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. The Children of Heracles holds a mirror up to contemporary Athens, while Andromache considers the position of women in Greek wartime society. In The Suppliant Women, the difference between just and unjust battle is explored, while Phoenician Women describes the brutal rivalry of the sons of King Oedipus, and the compelling Orestes depicts guilt caused by vengeful murder. Finally, Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides' last play, contemplates religious sacrifice and the insanity of war. Together, the plays offer a moral and political statement that is at once unique to the ancient world, and prophetically relevant to our own.
The Oresteia
The Oresteia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oresteia write by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2014-08-06. The Oresteia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Oresteia of Aeschylus
The Oresteia of Aeschylus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oresteia of Aeschylus write by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2022-10-27. The Oresteia of Aeschylus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Oresteia
The Oresteia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oresteia write by Aeschylus,. This book was released on 2014-04-24. The Oresteia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.
