Aeschylus, the Oresteia : the texts of the plays, ancient backgrounds and responses, criticism / translated by Oliver Taplin ; edited by Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings.
| Author/creator |
Aeschylus author. |
| Other author/creator | Taplin, Oliver, translator, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Billings, Joshua, 1985- editor. |
| Included Work | Container of (expression): Aeschylus. Oresteia. English. 2018. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2018 |
| Description | xxxv, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
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| Variant title | Oresteia |
| Series | A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. |
| Contents | The Texts of the Oresteia: Agamemnon ; Women At The Graveside (Choephoroi) ; Orestes At Athens (Eumenides) ; Textual Variants: Some Major Questions and Problems in the Texts ; The Text and Sequence of the Trial Scene in Orestes at Athens -- Ancient Backgrounds and Responses: Some Related Ancient Vase Paintings ; Homer: From the Odyssey ; On Stesichorus' Oresteia ; Pindar: From Pythian 11 ; From the Electras of Euripides and Sophocles ; Euripides: From Electra ; Sophocles: From Electra -- Criticism: From Lectures on Aesthetics / G. W. F. Hegel ; From Lectures on the Libation Bearers / Friedrich Nietzsche ; From The Oresteia of Aeschylus / George Thomson ; From Morals and Politics in the Oresteia / E. R. Dodds ; From Aeschylus: The Oresteia / Simon Goldhill ; From The Oresteia: A Study in Language and Structure / Anne Lebeck ; From The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Froma I. Zeitlin ; From Hunting and Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; [No-Man's-Land of Dark and Light] / John Herington ; [Aeschylean Drama and the Political Moment] / Alan H. Sommerstein ; From Politics and the Oresteia / C. W. Macleod ; From Clytemnestra and the Vote of Athena / R. P. Winnington-Ingram ; From The Art of Aeschylus / Thomas G. Rosenmeyer ; The "Aetiology" of Tragedy in the Oresteia / Peter Wilson. |
| Abstract | This is a new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedy--a trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argos--with explanatory annotations by the editors. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | Théâtre. |
| LCCN | 2018003430 |
| ISBN | 9780393923285 paperback |
| ISBN | 0393923282 paperback |
| Standard identifier# | 99976463533 |
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