Agamemnon

2016-09-06
Agamemnon

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • ISBN: 9781537484303
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68

The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the diction in this narrower sense, there is a quality of atmosphere surrounding the Agamemnon which seems almost to defy reproduction in another setting, because it depends in large measure on the position of the play in the historical development of Greek literature.

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

2011-11-18
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

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  • Author: David Raeburn
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 0191619809
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time, and includes a reprint of D. L. Page's Oxford Classical Text of the play. The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia trilogy as a whole, and the historical context in which the plays were produced. It discusses Aeschylus' handling of the traditional myth and the main ideas which underpin his overall design: such as the development of justice and the nature of human responsibility; and it emphasizes how the power of words, seen as ominous speech-acts which can determine future events, makes a central contribution to the play's dramatic momentum. Separate sections explore Aeschylus' use of theatrical resources, the role of the chorus, and the solo characters. Finally there is an analysis of Aeschylus' distinctive poetic style and use of imagery, and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions.

Agamemnon

1887
Agamemnon

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Agamemnon (Greek mythology)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

The Oresteian Trilogy

1973-07-26
The Oresteian Trilogy

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0141906294
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.

The Oresteia of Aeschylus

2022-10-27
The Oresteia of Aeschylus

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: Legare Street Press
  • ISBN: 9781016258470
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Oresteia

2014-08-06
The Oresteia

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library
  • ISBN: 0375712682
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneia’s mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electra’s encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years. The trilogy is presented here in George Thomson’s classic translation, renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and richness of the original Greek.

Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature

2019-04-11
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature

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  • Author: Emily J. Pillinger
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108473938
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 279

Using insights from translation theory, this book uncovers the value of female prophets' riddling prophecies in Greek and Latin poetry.

An Oresteia

2010-03-02
An Oresteia

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 086547916X
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions -- Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes, giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. --from publisher description.

Aeschylus II

2013-04-19
Aeschylus II

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226311481
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 189

This updated translation of the Oresteia trilogy and fragments of the satyr play Proteus includes an extensive historical and critical introduction. In the third edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining their vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Each volume also includes an introduction to the life and work of the tragedian and an explanation of how the plays were first staged, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. The result is a series of lively and authoritative translations offering a comprehensive introduction to these foundational works of Western drama.

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

2009-01-01
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: The Floating Press
  • ISBN: 1775412474
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 121

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ruler in heaven, Zeus, heralds the end of this cycle and the beginning of hope. Zeus has suffered and sinned and grown wise, and thereby shows humans how to grow wise also.