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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
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All drama exists in the shadow of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece; Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. They wrote scores of plays apiece, but only scattered works of those survive. Of Aeschylus' body of work survives the least: plays numbering a mere seven. However, Aeschylus was cut a... more info

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Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
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Lattimore, in his inept poetic exuberance, often loses the sense of a line and confuses the reader. Aeschylus is so powerful he can't be diminished entirely, but where is the modern translation we need? Lattimore published this in 1953, and says in his introduction that he changed little from a 1926... more info

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Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, and The Trojan Women (Euripides)

Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, & The Trojan Women (Euripides)
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There's no reason why these plays need to be randomly strewn throughout three different volumes. For example, why would someone split up Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone? They should all be a part of the same volume. These paperback books themselves are of decent quality and... more info

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Oresteia
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Again, I compared many different Orestia's and fell in love with this one on Hackett by Meineick.
It reads beautifully and easily and the drama and intensity is unmatched. You also get a believable sense of the characters, and the setting in this one.
It is in my opinion the best modern... more info

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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persian (Penguin Classics)
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Of dozens of plays written by Aeschylus, only 7 survive. Three comprise the great Oresteia and the other 4 are brought together in this anthology. Most are the surviving members of trilogies. All are at least interesting and contain much powerful language. None have the impact of the Oresteia,... more info

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Prometheus Bound
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I always find the prospect of reading ancient literature daunting, but this play was very easy to understand. I would definitely recommend this as a supplement for those studying ancient Greek Mythology. It really added depth to my understanding of Prometheus, Zeus and the mind set of the Ancient... more info

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The Oresteia (Bantam Classic)
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The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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This translation of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" kept me reading from beginning to end. I found Alan Shapiro's rendition of "Agamemnon" with its opaque vocabulary and imagery compelling, especially the hypnotic rhythms and repetitions of the long parodos and the second choral ode. He also has captured the... more info

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Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens and The Persians, Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
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I just wanted to point out that all these reviews refer to the wrong translation. This is NOT the Slavitt translation!
I haven't read this one but, having read Lattimore's translations of the Oresteia I would guess they were quite good.

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The Persians
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After volunteering to look at this play for my Classics degree, I started out with high hopes. But after opening it and dicovering how boring it was, my hopes faltered. I still gave it a go though and a couple of hours later when I finally got ready to start writing whether it was actually good... more info

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