Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides |
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Author:
| Aeschylus, |
Edited and Translated by:
| Sommerstein, Alan H. |
Series title: | Loeb Classical Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-99628-1 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) 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 of his lost plays also survive.
Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) 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 of his lost plays also survive.