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Aeschylus - Persians by Aeschylus; Edith Hall (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History | Series: Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extendedaccount of th ...Show more
All That You've Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies: Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, and Women of Trachis & Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound by Bryan Doerries (Translator); Sophocles; Aeschylus
Category: Classic Fiction
These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medic ...Show more
Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
PERSIANS & OTHER PLAYS by AESCHYLUS
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Aeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the power to inspire and terrify readers and theatre-goers alike. The four plays in this volume demonstrate the full range and depth of Aeschylus's genius. Persians is the onl ...Show more
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians by Aeschylus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S ...Show more
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebra ...Show more
The Oresteia - Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides by Aeschylus; George Thomson (Translator); Richard Seaford (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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 st ...Show more
The Oresteia - Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens by Aeschylus; Oliver Taplin (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
The most renowned of Aeschylus' tragedies and one of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, afflicted queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband's return from war to commit a terrible act o ...Show more
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides by Aeschylus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more ...Show more