The Agamemnon Of Aeschylus

Author : David Raeburn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619809
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by David Raeburn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 trilogy as a whole, and the historical context in which the plays were produced. It discusses Aeschylus' handling of the traditional myth and the main ideas which underpin his overall design: such as the development of justice and the nature of human responsibility; and it emphasizes how the power of words, seen as ominous speech-acts which can determine future events, makes a central contribution to the play's dramatic momentum. Separate sections explore Aeschylus' use of theatrical resources, the role of the chorus, and the solo characters. Finally there is an analysis of Aeschylus' distinctive poetic style and use of imagery, and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537484303
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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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 : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775412474
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ruler in heaven, Zeus, heralds the end of this cycle and the beginning of hope. Zeus has suffered and sinned and grown wise, and thereby shows humans how to grow wise also.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162558847X
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, first produced in 458 BC, is the opening play in his Oresteian trilogy. Agamemnon returns home after the Trojan Wars with his concubine Cassandra and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. The ensuing blood feud continues until the third and final play, Eumenides, when peace is finally restored to the house of the Atreidae. It is a powerful and moving play which is difficult to interpret and which for a long time lacked an English edition.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199595607
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary on Aeschylus' Agamemnon offers the reader a thorough introduction, extensive notes, and separate sections which explore Aeschylus' use of theatrical resources, an analysis of his distinctive poetic style and use of imagery, and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aeschyli Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Aeschylus' Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: