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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers), and Eumenides

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers), and Eumenides

Theodoridis, George
Aeschylus

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798694674904
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 20 2020
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

First presented at the festival of the City Dionysia, in 458 BCE and won the first prize, the Oresteia is the only trilogy that has survived the rapacious ways of Time to come down to us almost intact.

The myth that has inspired Aeschylus to write this trilogy is long and concerns the House of Atreus, a house which was almost obliterated by vengeance and revenge, in other words, by brutal murders. The last male of the house, Orestes survived, thanks to the new and exciting phenomenon that has emerged during Aeschylus' time, that of Democracy. The playwright shows us here this new phenomenon, in the form of a jury. The citizens of Athens, the demos, were asked by the goddess Athena to consider Orestes' guilt or innocence after he had murdered his mother, the Queen of Argos, Klytaemestra, and her lover, Aigisthus.

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