The Oresteia: Agamemnon - The Libation Bearers - The Eumenides - Softcover

Aeschylus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544618743 ISBN 13: 9781544618746

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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The Oresteian trilogy on "The House of Atreus" is one of the supreme productions of all literature. Aeschylus addressed the two great themes of the retribution of crime and the inheritance of evil, that create a bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos: in "Agamemnon", the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia before the Trojan War. In "The Libation Bearers" (Choephoroi), Orestes, Agamemnon's son, avenges his father by murdering his mother. In "The Furies" (Eumenides), Orestes flees to Delphi, pursued by the divine avengers (Erinyes) of his mother. After being purified by Apollo, he makes his way to Athens and is there tried at the court of Areopagus.Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1544618743
• ISBN 13: 9781544618746
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174
• Herausgeber: Classic Qem