The OresteiaThe author of more than 70 plays, Aeschylus is the earliest of the great Attic tragedians. Of these plays, only seven remain. The Oresteia is his only complete surviving trilogy. Peter Meineck has aimed to translate this version of the Oresteia for the modern stage. |
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