The Oresteia of Aeschylus
By: [translated by] Robert Lowell.
Contributors: Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Orestes (Greek mythology) -- Drama; Agamemnon (Greek mythology) -- Drama
Description: The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Agamemnon.; title: Orestes.; title: The Furies.