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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (4 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140440674
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140440676
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 208,024 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

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Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, adn his epitahp represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived. Philip Vellacott has translated Aeschylus and Euripides for the Penguin Classics. He taughts classics at Dulwich College for twenty-four years and lectured on Greek Drama in the USA. He was also a Visiting Lecturer in the University of California. He died in 1997.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A rare book indeed...., 27 May 2003
This book is a rare thing. It is a syllabus book that is actually entertaining! The three plays featured form a triology, that chart the murder of king Agamemnon by his wife, and the the revnge taken by his son and its consequences. Although it is quite a daunting read for someone who doesn't know much about Classics, it is well worth the effort. There are even notes in the back to help you understand the references. Apart from the references to ancient culture, the plays are easy to follow and entertaining, full of suspense, intrigue and horror. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to start learning about Classical culture or people who want a good read without having to resort to a "airport" novel!
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