Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides
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Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides by Aeschylus
Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the worlds 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.
Alan Sommerstein’s three-volume Aeschylus… is in many respects the best critical edition of this playwright available in any formatSommerstein’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 *
Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek, University of Nottingham.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674996281 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674996283 |
| Title | Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides |
| Author | Aeschylus |
| Series | Loeb Classical Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2009-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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