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Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Agamemnon the King: a Tragedy written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377889795
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon the King written by Aeschylus and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 274 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104608552
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon the King written by Aeschylus and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961716
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Aeschylus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
Author : David Grene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedies written by David Grene and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627930310
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The House of Atreus written by Aeschylus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus was a Greek playwright considered to be the founder of the tragedy. Aeschylus along with Sophocles and Euripides are the three major Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Before Aeschylus, characters in a play only interacted with the chorus. Aeschylus expanded the number of actors allowing for interaction among the characters. Seven of his 92 plays have survived. The Persian invasion of Greece, which took place during his lifetime, influenced many of his plays. The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus, which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The plays were "Agamemnon," "Choephorae" (The Libation-Bearers), and the "Eumenides" (Furies).
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537484303
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the diction in this narrower sense, there is a quality of atmosphere surrounding the Agamemnon which seems almost to defy reproduction in another setting, because it depends in large measure on the position of the play in the historical development of Greek literature.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1957 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And wept; while visioned in the light Of her own loveliness, more bright Than pictured breathing form that is but mute, She looked as though she wished, with that pure voice, That oft her father's halls along, Had made full many a chieftain there rejoice, To speak to that assembled throng. STROPHE IV. Yes! at those feasts that maiden chaste and fair, In modulations soft and sweet, Had warbled many a joyous air To her glad sire, and told how great Would be his fame, how blest his state. The rest I saw not?nor to sing could dare: Justice confirms the laws of fate, Too well that augur's words recorded were, The past already may relate, What future ills for us the Gods prepare. ANTISTKOPHE IV. A mystic dark impenetrable veil Hangs o'er the fortunes of the great, To pierce that barrier all must fail, The secret hour of time and fate All those who dare anticipate, Reap that they sow, a crop of tears: we see That omens, ever, soon or late Come true. Oh! prosperous may the future be ! Sole guardians of this Apian state Thus pray ye all, and bless the augury. chapter{Section 4CHORUS. CLYTEMNESTRA. CLYTEMNESTKA. Queen Clytemnestra, we are come to offer Such homage as befits a royal consort, For justice bids, those honours of the throne, Where our king sate, be paid you in his absence. If you have heard of gladdening import aught, Or hearing not, make sacrifice with hopes The messengers of good, we willingly Would know; nor thou disdain through envious pride To answer this our wish. CLYTEMNESTRA. Morn, as men say, Come forth in gladness from the womb of night. You shall hear joyous tidings, news beyond Your utmost expectation good; the Greeks Are lords of Priam's city. CHORUS. What do...
Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hippolytos written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104015763
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1621075567
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated) written by Aeschylus and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge. Adultery. Murder. It certainly sounds like a lively play. Unfortunately, archaic translation make understanding Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" a little difficult. Until now! If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin. The original text is also presented in the book with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Iphigenia at Aulis written by Euripides and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Iphigenia at Aulis" by Euripides. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486292428
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Oresteia Trilogy written by Aeschylus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic trilogy by great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.
Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134414935
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy in Action written by Oliver Taplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances. Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated. Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world.
Author : Paul Hammond
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004467378
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire written by Paul Hammond and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis charts the playwrights’ contrasting assumptions about agency and autonomy. In the second part, six plays by Corneille and Racine are discussed to show how the problem of agency and free will is explored in scenarios which show protagonists who are in thrall to their past, to their rulers, or to their own ideals.
