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Sommerstein Presents A Freshly Constituted Text, With Introduction And Commentary, Of Eumenides, The Climactic Play Of The Only Surviving Complete Greek Tragic Trilogy, The Oresteia Of Aeschylus. Of All Athenian Tragic Dramas, Eumenides Is Most Consciously Designed To Be Relevant To The Situation Of The Athenian State At The Time Of Its Performance (458 B.c.) And Seems To Have Contained Daring Innovations Both In Technique And In Ideas. The Introduction And Commentary To This Edition Seek To Bring Out How Aeschylus Shaped To His Purpose The Legends He Inherited, And Ended The Tragic Story Of Agamemnon's Family In A Celebration Of Athenian Civic Unity And Justice. The Commentary Also Pays Attention To The Linguistic, Metrical And Textual Problems To Be Encountered By The Reader. 1 The Legend 1 -- 2 Erinyes, Eumenides And Semnai 6 -- 3 The Areopagus And Homicide 13 -- 4 The Life And Work Of Aeschylus 17 -- 5 Justice And The Gods 19 -- 6 A Play For Its Day 25 -- 7 Production And Staging 32 -- 8 The Text 35 -- Sigla 37 -- Eumenides 39 -- Appendix Lyric Metres 287. Aeschylus ; Edited By Alan H. Sommerstein. Text In Greek; Introd. And Commentary In English. Includes Indexes. Bibliography

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Author

Aeschylus

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521240840

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-14