The Oresteian Trilogy

Informationen zum Autor Aeschylus Klappentext After the Fall of Troy, 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. Zusammenfassung After the Fall of Troy, 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Oreteian TrilogyIntroduction Agamemnon The Choephori or The Libation-Bearers The Eumenides Notes to 'Agamemnon' Notes to 'The Choephori' Notes to 'The Eumenides' Appendix Select Bibliography The Pronunciation of Greek Names Genealogical Table of the House of Atreus

Product details

• Authors: Aeschylus, Philip Vellacott
• Assisted by: Philip Vellacott (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.1973
• EAN: 9780140440676
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044067-6
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient, classical and medieval texts