The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The EumenidesFirst 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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
AEGISTHUS Aeschylean Aeschylus Agamemnon altar anapests ancient Antistrophe Apollo Areopagus Argive Argos Artemis ATHENE Athenian Atreidae Atreus audience avenge blood bring called CASSANDRA CHORUS CLYTEMNESTRA compare Agam Coryphaeus crimes curse daughter dead death deed Delphi dialogue divine earth Elders ELECTRA enemies Erinyes Erinys Eumenides Euripides evil exile eyes fate father fortune give goddess gods Greek tragedy grievous hand hear heart HERALD Hermes Homer honor husband iambic Iliad Iphigeneia justice kill king lament land Libation Bearers Loxias lyric Macintosh man’s marching anapests means men’s Menelaus metaphor meter mind mortals mother murder one’s oracle Oresteia ORESTES palace Parodos play poet pollution prayer pronounce prophet punish PYLADES reverence sacrifice scene Second Stasimon sense sings song Sophocles sorrow speak speech stanza Stesichorus story Strophe strophic suppliant tell things thought Thyestes tomb trilogy trimeters trochaic Trojan Troy utter woman word translated wrath Zeus Zeus’s