The Tragedies of Aeschylos: Life of Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Choephori, or The libation-pourers. Eumenides
Author : Aeschylus
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Aeschylus
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3986771700
Choephori Aeschylus - Also known as 'The Libation Bearers' this is the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. Many years after king Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife Clytamnestra and her lover Aigisthos, his son Orestes returns home with Pylades to mourn at his grave. He has been living in exile and has come back to Argos in secret; his mission is to avenge Agamemnon's death.Orestes arrives at the grave of his father, accompanied by his cousin Pylades, the son of the king of Phocis, where he has grown up in exile; he places two locks of his hair on the tomb. Orestes and Pylades hide as Electra, Orestes' sister, arrives at the grave accompanied by a chorus of elderly slave women (the libation bearers of the title) to pour libations on Agamemnon's grave; they have been sent by Clytemnestra in an effort to ward off harm. Just as the ritual ends, Electra spots a lock of hair on the tomb which she recognizes as similar to her own; subsequently she sees two sets of footprints, one of which has proportions similar to hers. At this point Orestes and Pylades emerge from their hiding place and Orestes gradually convinces her of his identity.
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780461476132
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1786940981
The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, one of the outstanding masterpieces of Greek literature. This edition, including text, translation and commentary, seeks to take full account of the latest advances in scholarship while making the play accessible to a wide range of readers
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 168146263X
Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.
Author : Aeschylus,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472521870
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 debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.
Author : Aeschylus
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Drama
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A brief discussion of the life of Aeschylus and the structure of early tragedy accompanies a translation of the three plays based on H.W. Smyth's Loeb Classical Library text.
Author : Aeschylus Aeschylus
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781515425885
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Loeb Classical Library
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once. Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The second volume contains the complete Oresteia trilogy, comprising Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, and Eumenides, presenting the murder of Agamemnon by his wife, the revenge taken by their son Orestes, the pursuit of Orestes by his mother's avenging Furies, his trial and acquittal at Athens, Athena's pacification of the Furies, and the blessings they both invoke upon the Athenian people.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1989-11-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521284301
Professor Sommerstein presents here a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the final play in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy.