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The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides

by Aeschylus (translated by Philip Vellacott)

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Penguin Books, 1959. Mass Market Paperback. GOOD. 18 cm.. Pages are tanned. Short 1/2 inch split to lower back corner of spine. 203 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.

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‘Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a house’s life With darkness, treachery and strife’ (47 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. Philip Vellacott’s verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.

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Irolita Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
10566
Title
The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides
Author
Aeschylus (translated by Philip Vellacott)
Format/Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition
Used - GOOD
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Date Published
1959
Pages
203
Size
18 cm.
Bookseller catalogs
Literature & Fiction - Ancient & Medieval;

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