Oresteia, The: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides by Aeschylus

Oresteia, The: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

Aeschylus with Hugh Lloyd-Jones

248 pages • first pub -458 (editions)

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First performed in 458 BC, 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 de...

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