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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus; W. B. Stanford, Robert Fagles is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death; and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society. The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford in Penguin Classics. For more t
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- Author
- Aeschylus; W. B. Stanford, Robert Fagles
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140443332
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Drama, Literary Collections
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (25,214 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Aeschylus : The Oresteia (1979)
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) (1977)
- The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes (2000)
- The Oresteia (1975)
- Aeschylus: Oresteia (2002)
- Oresteia (1998)
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) (2009)
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) (2011)
- The Oresteia : Agamemnon ; the Libation Bearers ; the Eumenides (1984)
- The Oresteia : a new translation for the theater (1989)
- The Oresteia : Agamemnon ; the Libation Bearers ; the Eumenides (1979)
- Aeschylus: The Oresteia (1982)
- The Oresteian trilogy : Agamemnon, the Choephori, the Eumenides (1959)
- Oresteia (Oxford World's Classics) (2003)
- Oresteia (Oxford World's Classics) (2009)
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) (1979)
- The Oresteia : Agamemnon ; the Libation Bearers ; the Eumenides (2014)
- The Oresteian trilogy: Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides /Translated by Philip Vellacott.. -- (1959)
- The Oresteia (1976)
- The Oresteia (1981)
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