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Professor Sommerstein here presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Eumenides is of all Athenian tragic dramas the one most consciously... Read Full Overview

This edition of Aeschylus' triumphantly reconciliatory final play of the Oresteian trilogy presents a newly constituted text that diverges substantially from Page's OCT of 1972. The translation is in prose, with a literary and historical commentary, and an introduction dealing... Read Full Overview

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Apr s une longue errance, Oreste, toujours poursuivi par les rinyes, arrive au sanctuaire d'Apollon Delphes pour se purifier de son crime. Mais les rinyes ne le l chent pas. Apollon tente d'interc der d fendant "le meurtrier d'une femme qui a gorg son mari", contre les... Read Full Overview

A powerful Greek tragedy exploring justice, vengeance, and the transformation of moral order in ancient myth.

The Furies (also known as The Eumenides) forms the concluding part of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, bringing to resolution the cycle of vengeance... Read Full Overview

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Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Of all Athenian tragic dramas, Eumenides is most consciously designed to be relevant... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of... Read Full Overview