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Table of Contents
Praise
Reading Group Guide
About Aeschylus
Books by Aeschylus

The Oresteia
Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
Aeschylus - Author
Robert Fagles - Translator
W. B. Stanford - Introduction by
W. B. Stanford - Notes by
W. B. Stanford - Glossary
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 336 pages | ISBN 9780140443332 | 07 Feb 1984 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
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The Oresteia
In 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, it's spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal. The Oresteia - Aeschylus

Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Reading of "The Oresteia": The Serpent and the Eagle

AESCHYLUS: THE ORESTEIA

Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides

The Geneaology of Orestes
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Notes:
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides
Glossary

'Conveys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten competitors I have consulted the eternal power of this masterpiece . . . a triumph' - Bernard Levin

'How satisfying to read at last a modern translation which is rooted in Greek feeling and Greek thought, and is not intimidated by grandeur. Here both the stature and the profound instinctive genius of Aeschylus are recognized' - Mary Renault

'The most exciting translation of this generation' - Charles Beye, Parnassus

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