The Oresteia
by Aeschylus, Ted Hughes (Translator)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374227217
- ISBN 13
- 9780374227210
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About This Item
First US edition. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9.5", is bound in gilt-lettered black paper spine and light violet paper-covered boards, with decorative black border design. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 197 pages.
"The great poet's powerful translation of the classic trilogy of Greek drama. With "Tales from Ovid", Ted Hughes was recognized as a superb interpreter of the classics, and with his "Birthday Letters", addressed to Sylvia Plath, he was revealed to a large public as a poet of extraordinarily deep feeling. The "Oresteia" of Aeschylus caps a remarkable year for his poetry. Aeschylus (525-456 b.c.) was, with Sophocles, the greatest classical Greek dramatist. The "Oresteia"--"Agamemnon", "Choephori", and "Eumenides"--tells the story of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Hughes's "acting version" of the trilogy is itself a great performance; while artfully inflected with the contemporary, it has a classical beauty and authority. The "Oresteia" of Aeschylus deserves to become the standard edition for English-language readers and for the stage, too."
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- Bookseller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2811
- Title
- The Oresteia
- Author
- Aeschylus, Ted Hughes (Translator)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374227217
- ISBN 13
- 9780374227210
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Classical Antiquity
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