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Title:
Aeschylus, the Oresteia : the texts of the plays, ancient backgrounds and responses, criticism / translated by Oliver Taplin ; edited by Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings.
Author:
Aeschylus, author.

Taplin, Oliver, translator, editor.

Billings, Joshua, 1985- editor.

Container of (expression): Aeschylus. Oresteia. English. 2018.
Publication Information:
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

©2018
Call Number:
PA3825 .A6 2018
Abstract:
This is a new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedy--a trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argos--with explanatory annotations by the editors.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780393923285
Series:
A Norton critical edition

Norton critical edition.
Physical Description:
xxxv, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The Texts of the Oresteia: Agamemnon ; Women At The Graveside (Choephoroi) ; Orestes At Athens (Eumenides) ; Textual Variants: Some Major Questions and Problems in the Texts ; The Text and Sequence of the Trial Scene in Orestes at Athens -- Ancient Backgrounds and Responses: Some Related Ancient Vase Paintings ; Homer: From the Odyssey ; On Stesichorus' Oresteia ; Pindar: From Pythian 11 ; From the Electras of Euripides and Sophocles ; Euripides: From Electra ; Sophocles: From Electra -- Criticism: From Lectures on Aesthetics / From Lectures on the Libation Bearers / From The Oresteia of Aeschylus / From Morals and Politics in the Oresteia / From Aeschylus: The Oresteia / From The Oresteia: A Study in Language and Structure / From The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus' Oresteia / From Hunting and Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia / [No-Man's-Land of Dark and Light] / [Aeschylean Drama and the Political Moment] / From Politics and the Oresteia / From Clytemnestra and the Vote of Athena / From The Art of Aeschylus / The "Aetiology" of Tragedy in the Oresteia
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