Oresteia

Informationen zum Autor Alan Shapiro is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of a number of prize-winning volumes of poetry and prose, including The Dead Alive and Busy, winner of the 2001 Kingsley Tufts Award. Peter Burian is Professor of Classics at Duke University. Together, they act as the general editors for Oxford's Greek Tragedy in New Translations series. Klappentext The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the only extant trilogy among the Greek tragedies, is considered to be one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. In this new translation by Alan Shapiro and Peter Burian, the strangeness of the original Greek and its enduring human truth come alive in language that is remarkable for its unrelenting poetic intensity, its rich metaphorical texture, and a verbal density that at times can modulate into the simplest expressions. Zusammenfassung "The Oresteia" by Aeschylus, a trilogy among the Greek tragedies, is considered to be one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. This title is a translation of this work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 123456: IntroductionTranslator's NoteAgamemnonThe Libation BearersThe EumenidesNotes on the TextGlossaryBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Aeschylus, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro
• Assisted by: Peter Burian (Editor), Alan Shapiro (Editor), Peter Burian (Translation), Alan Shapiro (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2004
• EAN: 9780195135923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513592-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations; Greek Tragedy in New Translations; Greek Tragedy in New Translati
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies