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The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. - Publisher.
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- Author
- Aeschylus; Transl. by Philip Vellacott
- Publisher
- Penguin Books; Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1959
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140440676
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (276 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)
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) (1984)
- 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 Oresteia (1976)
- The Oresteia (1981)
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