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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).

A fourth play, Proteus, originally formed part of a tetralogy, but has not survived.

The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.

This English version of The Oresteia, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton.

The Oresteia

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    A Paperback / softback by Aeschylus, Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 17 April 2007
      ISBN-13 9781854591739
      978-1854591739
      ISBN-10 1854591738
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

      Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).

      A fourth play, Proteus, originally formed part of a tetralogy, but has not survived.

      The trilogy was first performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.

      This English version of The Oresteia, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton.

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