Agamemnon

Informationen zum Autor David Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His translations of The Complete Poetry of Catullus and of Sophocles' Theban trilogy-- Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus --are all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Klappentext A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War, bringing with him the seer Cassandra. Awaiting him is his wife Clytemnestra, who is angry at Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter to the gods, jealous of Cassandra, and guilty of taking a lover. The events that unfold catch everyone in a bloody net. Zusammenfassung A new verse translation of Agamemnon! the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia! combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English.

Product details

• Authors: Aeschylus, David (TRN) Aeschylus/ Mulroy, David D. Mulroy
• Assisted by: David Mulroy (Translation)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780299306342
• ISBN: 978-0-299-30634-2
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies