The Oresteia
Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
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 s…
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Weitere Autoren: Fagles, Robert (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-101-04263-2
- EAN: 9781101042632
- Produktnummer: 17987349
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1984
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 589 KB
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Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, and his epitaph represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived, all translated for Penguin Classics: The Supplicants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides.
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