Oresteia

Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides

Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
14 January 2009

Plays & playscripts; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History; Ancient Greek

Series: Loeb Classical Library

Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once.

Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The second volume contains the complete Oresteia trilogy, comprising Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, and Eumenides, presenting the murder of Agamemnon by his wife, the revenge taken by their son Orestes, the pursuit of Orestes by his mother's avenging Furies, his trial and acquittal at Athens, Athena's pacification of the Furies, and the blessings they both invoke upon the Athenian people.

By: Aeschylus
Translated by: Alan H. Sommerstein
Edited and translated by: Alan H. Sommerstein
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: v. 146
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780674996281
ISBN 10: 0674996283
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 14 January 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek, University of Nottingham.

Reviews for Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides

Alan Sommerstein’s three-volume Aeschylus… is in many respects the best critical edition of this playwright available in any format. Sommerstein’s authority as a linguist and expert in Aeschylean drama is second to none, and he has provided an up-to-date and carefully constituted text for the seven surviving plays, plus all of the fragmentary remains that are at least one line long. Important manuscript variants and modern conjectures are scrupulously recorded (making the page a little cluttered, but clear enough); and in addition he has provided copious notes, fuller and more numerous than is normal for a Loeb, on matters of myth, geography, history and interpretation. -- Mark Griffith * Times Literary Supplement *