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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Aeschylus II

    The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    This updated translation of the Oresteia trilogy and fragments of the satyr play Proteus includes an extensive historical and critical introduction.In the third edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining their vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are ... Read more

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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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  • 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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  • Eumenides

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series The Works of Aeschylus presented by Kobo Editions
    Having murdered his mother as revenge for his father’s death, Orestes is pursued relentlessly by the Furies. Pleading to Apollo, who ordered the young man to kill his mother, Orestes escapes to the city of Athens. Once there, he is captured and put on trial by Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who uses the case to set up the first courtroom trial in Ancient Greece. Will the verdict be in Orestes’ ... Read more

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  • Prometheus Bound

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. ... Read more

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  • The Oresteia Trilogy (Unabridged English Translation)

    Translated by E. D. A. Morshead ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Oresteia Trilogy (Unabridged English Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The trilogy known as The Oresteia, consists of the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides. This trilogy of plays, written a number of years B.C.E., dramatizes one of the earliest, most culturally significant ... Read more

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