The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides by Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

Oresteia #01-03

Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones

248 pages • first pub -458 (editions)

fiction classics play poetry challenging dark tense medium-paced
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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 deb...

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