Orestes
By: Euripides ; translated by Kenneth McLeish
Contributors: McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997, translator; Euripides
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: In a story of murder, passion and vengeance, Orestes, having murdered his mother, the unfaithful Klytemnestra, now vows a plot of revenge against his uncle Menelaos, who has refused to offer moral support for the vengeful matricide carried out by Orestes and his sister Elektra. With blood already on their hands, they plot to murder Helen, Menelaos' wife, and Hermione, his daughter, in a near-unstoppable cycle of vengeance and bloodshed.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 1997.

Translated from the Ancient Greek.