The Oresteia Av Ted Hughes

Orestes'' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus'' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after...

<p>The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus'' <i>The Oresteia</i> is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford in Penguin...

A new verse translation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus, with illustrations by Tom Phillips.

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. Seven of his eighty or so plays survive complete, including the Oresteia trilogy and the Persians, the only extant Greek historical drama. Fragments...