The Oresteia

  • The Oresteia
    The Oresteia
    By Ted Hughes, Aeschylus

    A translation of the Greek tragedy about Agamemnon King of Argos. "By far the best translation. Faithful to the original Greek text and eminently readable. The notes constitute a commentary in their own right.

  • The Oresteia: Apollo & Bacchus
    By William Whallon

    The Oresteia: Apollo & Bacchus

  • The Oresteia: Apollo & Bacchus
    The Oresteia: Apollo & Bacchus
    By William Whallon

    The Oresteia: Apollo & Bacchus

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
    By Aeschylus

    Stay calm, don't let yourself be overcome with joy— because, as I am well aware, our closest kin are bitter enemies. ELECTRA 240 You are the dearest sweetheart of our father's house, the wept-for hope our bloodline's seed might be ...

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
    By Aeschylus

    Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides
    By , Aeschylus

    Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive ...

  • The Oresteia
    The Oresteia
    By , Aeschylus

    The curse of the House of Atreus, passing from generation to generation, is one of the great myths of Western literature. In the hands of Aeschylus, the story enacts the final victory of reason and justice over superstition and barbarity.

  • The Oresteia: The Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies
    The Oresteia: The Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies
    By Aeschylus, E. D. A. Morshead

    The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.

  • The Oresteia: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics)
    The Oresteia: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics)
    By Aeschylus

    The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the ...

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides
    By , Aeschylus

    Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive ...

  • The Oresteia: A new verse translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia Trilogy
    The Oresteia: A new verse translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia Trilogy
    By Andy Hinds

    It will be of equal interest and use, therefore, to teachers, students and academics, to actors and directors, and to the general reader. The Oresteia is released as a companion volume to Hinds translation of Iphigenia in Aulis.

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
    By Aeschylus

    Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years.

  • The Oresteia
    The Oresteia
    By Aeschylus

    The Oresteia By Aeschylus The popular Greek author of ancient period tragedy trilogy whose only surviving work from that era (and also of the whole Greek empire) has become an example of ancient Greek theater.

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon - the Libation Bearers - the Eumenides
    By Aeschylus

    The QEM Classic collection is available on Amazon. QEM Classic eBooks have Hyperlinked Table Of Contents: readers can easily go to a specific chapter by clicking its entry in the TOC.

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy Goddesses
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy Goddesses
    By Aeschylus

    First presented in the spring of 458 B.C.E. at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won the first prize.

  • The Oresteia: A Study in Language and Structure
    The Oresteia: A Study in Language and Structure
    By Anne Lebeck

    The Oresteia: A Study in Language and Structure

  • The Oresteia
    The Oresteia
    By Aeschylus

    Unfortunately, only seven of an estimated 70 plays by Aeschylus have survived into modern × one of these plays, Prometheus Bound, is sometimes thought not to be the work of Aeschylus.At least one of Aeschylus's works was influenced by the ...