num_pages: 454
description: This new edition of Choephori takes into account the abundance of recent scholarship on Aeschylus' work. A. F. Garvie's introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean Orestes tradition in literature and art, the character of the play itself--its ideas, imagery, structure, and staging--and the state of the transmitted text. This edition reprints the Greek text and critical apparatus from the well-received Oxford Classical Text, edited by D. L. Page, and includes 350 pages of commentary devoted to problems of interpretation, style and dramatic technique.
language: English
title: Choephori
titlecomplete: Choephori (Clarendon Paperbacks)
characters: Electra, Orestes, Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon)
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Tragedy, Ancient, Poetry, Literature, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 3166
series: Oresteia
publisher: Clarendon Press