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Book Synopsis Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by : C. W. Marshall
Download or read book Aeschylus: Libation Bearers written by C. W. Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.
Download or read book Libation Bearers written by Aeschylus and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2018 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, one of the outstanding masterpieces of Greek literature. This edition, including text, translation and commentary, seeks to take full account of the latest advances in scholarship while making the play accessible to a wide range of readers
Download or read book The Choephori written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Libation-Bearers written by Aeschylus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.
Download or read book The Oresteia written by Aeschylus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-02-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneia’s mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electra’s encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years. The trilogy is presented here in George Thomson’s classic translation, renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and richness of the original Greek.
Download or read book Oresteia written by Aeschylus I. and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oresteia of Aeschylus by : Aeschylus
Download or read book The Oresteia of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Libation-Bearers by : Aeschylus Aeschylus
Download or read book The Libation-Bearers written by Aeschylus Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oresteia Trilogy written by Aeschylus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClassic trilogy by great tragedian concerns the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand style, rich diction and dramatic dialogue. Still powerful after 2500 years. /div
Download or read book The Choephori written by Aeschylus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choephori - The Libation Bearers - Aeschylus The Libation Bearers is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reunion of Agamemnon's children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Orestes kills Clytemnestra to avenge the death of Agamemnon, Orestes' father. Storyline Orestes arrives at the grave of his father, accompanied by his cousin Pylades, the son of the king of Phocis, where he has grown up in exile; he places two locks of his hair on the tomb. Orestes and Pylades hide as Electra, Orestes' sister, arrives at the grave accompanied by a chorus of elderly slave women (the libation bearers of the title) to pour libations on Agamemnon's grave; they have been sent by Clytemnestra in an effort "to ward off harm" (l.42). Just as the ritual ends, Electra spots a lock of hair on the tomb which she recognizes as similar to her own; subsequently she sees two sets of footprints, one of which has proportions similar to hers. At this point Orestes and Pylades emerge from their hiding place and Orestes gradually convinces her of his identity. Now, in the longest and most structurally complex lyric passage in extant Greek tragedy, the chorus, Orestes, and Electra, attempt to conjure the departed spirit of Agamemnon to aid them in revenging his murder. Orestes then asks "why she sent libations, what calculation led her to offer too late atonement for a hurt past cure" (l.515-516). The chorus responds that in the palace of Argos Clytemnestra was roused from slumber by a nightmare: she dreamt that she gave birth to a snake, and the snake now feeds from her breast and draws blood along with milk. Alarmed by this, a possible sign of the gods' wrath, she "sent these funeral libations" (l.538). Orestes believes that he is the snake in his mother's dream, so together with Electra they plan to avenge their father by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her new husband, Aegisthus.
Download or read book The Oresteia written by Aeschylus, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.
Book Synopsis The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus by : Aeschylus
Download or read book The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection by : Michelle Zerba
Download or read book Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection written by Michelle Zerba and published by Classical Memories/Modern Iden. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does groundbreaking work on race and gender studies by examining how C. P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's modern works intersect with Odyssean tropes.
Download or read book Oresteia written by Aeschylus, and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oresteian trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) established the themes of Greek tragedy - the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. The plays dramatize the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, the revenge of her son Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athens. This new translation seeks to preserve the plays' qualities as theatre and as literature.
Book Synopsis The Choëphoroe (Libation-bearers) of Aeschylus by : Aeschylus
Download or read book The Choëphoroe (Libation-bearers) of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling rejected by her own family after her younger sister's death, fourteen-year-old Cory adopts a blind show dog and devotes herself to bringing back some of his championship glory by training him for agility competition.
Download or read book The Oresteia written by Aeschylus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only surviving trilogy of Greek plays, The Oresteia (also known as The House of Atreus) is comprised of early masterworks of the playwright Aeschylus: Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Furies. Together, the plays tell a story of murder, revenge, curses, and justice. The characters include the Greek Gods, who interact with humanity and influence events.
Download or read book Aeschylus, 1 written by Aeschylus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Penn Greek Drama Series, this volume offers translations by David Slavitt of the great trilogy of the House of Atreus, telling of Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, and of Electra's rebelliousness and Orestes's ultimate revenge.
