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  • Aeschylus I

    The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    The third edition of this volume includes newly revised, authoritative and compelling translations of four timeless works by the Ancient Greek tragedian.Aeschylus I contains "The Persians," translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes," translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens," translated by Seth Benardete; and "Prometheus Bound," translated by David Grene. For this edition, ... Read more

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  • Agamemnon

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series The Works of Aeschylus presented by Kobo Editions
    At war with Troy for ten years, Agamemnon finally returns home to his kingdom. His wife Cytemnestra is publicly glad to see him, yet plots to murder her husband and his new concubine. Seeking vengeance for the sacrifice of her daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis ten years earlier, will the queen succeed in taking the crown of Mycenae for herself? Or will loyalty to her king win out in the ... Read more

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  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

    One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit ... Read more

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  • Agamemnon

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Plays by Aeschylus
    A watchman on top of the house, reporting that he has been lying restless there like a dog for a year, for so rules the expectant manly-willed heart of a woman (that woman being Clytemnestra awaiting the return of her husband, who has arranged that mountaintop beacons give the signal when Troy has fallen). He laments the fortunes of the house, but promises to keep silent: 'A huge ox has stepped ... Read more

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  • Agamemnon

    by Aeschylus ...
    Agamemnon is one of three Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in 450 B.C. collectively known as The Oresteia.In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. Legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought ... Read more

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  • The Complete Aeschylus Collection

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by E.H. Plumptre, E.D.A. Morshead ...
    Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Aeschylus was one of the few ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Aeschylus preceded Sophocles and Euripides which makes him the first of the tragedians on ... Read more

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  • The Seven Against Thebes

    by Aeschylus ...
    "Seven Against Thebes" is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC.Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian.Translator: E.D.A. Morshead ... Read more

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  • The Choephori

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Plays by Aeschylus
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Oresteia Trilogy (Unabridged English Translation)

    Exploring Justice, Vengeance, and Fate in Greek Tragedy

    by Aeschylus ...
    The Oresteia Trilogy, Aeschylus's seminal work, is a powerful exploration of justice, revenge, and the dynamics of familial loyalty. Comprising three plays'ÄîAgamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides'Äîthis trilogy unfolds the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, marked by cycles of bloodshed and moral confrontation. Aeschylus employs a rich, lyrical style that masterfully intertwines ... Read more

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  • The Eumenides

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Plays by Aeschylus
    Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and eleven other judges chosen by her from the Athenian citizenry at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens later held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes's killing of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him guilty of the crime of murder. ... Read more

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  • The Oresteian Trilogy

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by Philip Vellacott ...
    Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover ... Read more

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  • Greek Tragedy: Selected Works of Aeschylus and Sophocles

    Prometheus Bound, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoroe, The Eumenides, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Electra

    "Greek Tragedy" is meticulously edited collection of the most famous plays written by Aeschylus and Sophocles. Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater allowing conflict among them; characters previously had interacted only with the chorus. Sophocles (c ... Read more

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