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| Original Title: | Ὀρέστεια |
| ISBN: | 0140443339 (ISBN13: 9780140443332) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Oresteia #1-3 |
| Characters: | Orestes, Io . . ., Electra, Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon), Elektra, Cassandra, Agamemnon |
| Setting: | Greece Argos(Greece) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1977) |
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Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.02 | 34599 Users | 1140 Reviews
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Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, hereIn the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving 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 celebration.
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| Title | : | The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Oresteia #1-3) |
| Author | : | Aeschylus |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | February 7th 1984 by Penguin Classics (first published -458) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Plays. Drama. Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Poetry. Theatre |
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....Just passed the Libation Bearers. Aeschylus has a way with ironic, monumental dialogues which portend tremendous climaxes. The language is so deep and seeps into the interaction- apparantly he suggests that there are no good options in life, merely the best of the worst, and that one must take their place amid the roil. Wisdom. This resonates with me, in the way that a drama read on the page will, as I imagine the perfect language and staging to bear witness to it....bigger review to follow,Seeing the Oresteia on stage is an overwhelming experience to say the least. Reading and discussing the drama at university felt like going through the Disney version of it by comparison. Hearing the screams, seeing the blood and madness, following real people on their anxious road down to hellish destruction while they stare at you - the audience - with blind eyes - that is almost more than one can bear, even if one is familiar with the intertwined plays beforehand.Violence leads to more
This trilogy is absolutely brilliant and a must read because it marks the origins of Western democracy and its patriarchal and patrilineal aspects and it is ever relevant. Especially today. Also, the prof who did this with us is also absolutely brilliant and attending her lectures on this text felt like receiving revelation, I'm not even exaggerating.
According to the Wikpedia entry for Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion"...The canvasses are based on the Eumenidesor Furiesof Aeschylus's Oresteia...Bacon did not seek to illustrate the narrative of the tale, however. He told the French art critic Michel Leiris, "I could not paint Agamemnon, Clytemnestra or Cassandra, as that would have been merely another kind of historical painting ... Therefore I tried to create an image of the effect it produced inside
At the beginning of the fifth century, it was customary for each of the tragedians competing at the festival of Dionysus to present a trilogy of three plays on a related theme, followed by a satyr-play. The Oresteia is the only surviving example of a Greek tragic trilogy, so it has immense importance in the history of drama. Each of the plays is self-contained; however, the endings of the first two plays transition naturally into the following plays. Each play has its own chorus and an almost
ForewordAcknowledgementsA Reading of 'The Oresteia': The Serpent and the Eagle--Agamemnon--The Libation Bearers--The EumenidesThe Genealogy of OrestesSelect BibliographyNotesGlossary
The Greeks had an intoxicating culture, or at least it seems to us. All of the iniquities and superstitions of the ancient people have been buried or lost, leaving only the perfect skeletons of buildings and the greatest of their literary productions. As a result, they strike us as a race of superpeople. This trilogy certainly furthers this impression, for it is a perfect poetic representation of the birth of justice and ethics out of the primordial law of retaliation.The most basic ethical
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