The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students

by David Raeburn and Oliver Thomas

Book Overview

This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time, and includes a reprint of D. L. Page's Oxford Classical Text of the play.

The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199595615
• ISBN13: 9780199595617
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"