Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides

Crisp & solid vintage copy, pages age tanned.An Eighth Day View: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. Title:: Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides Author:: Aeschylus, ISBN Number:: 0140440674 ISBN-13: 9780140440676 Location Published:: Penguin Group: December 1956 Binding:: Paper Back Book Condition:: Used - Good Categories: Greek & Latin Classics Seller ID:: 240031