Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
Description: Very Good. This book is in very good shape and has about 10% notes in pencil. This book is in very good condition. The cover may have minor to medium wear, tear, dents, scratches. and creases. The inside pages are in great shape, may have minor to medium dog eared corners, and may contain a name inside. Shop with confidence. We guarantee the condition of every product as it's described on our listings. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. The book shows moderate corner curl, otherwise clean and unmarked inside and out with NO creasing to spine and tight binding. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 180 p. Complete Greek Tragedies. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: paperback
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
Date Published: no date (1980's)
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
Description: Very Good (light edgewear to covers) 8vo. 171pp. Being Aeschylus volume I from The Complete Greek Tragedies series, edited by David Green and Richmond Lattimore, translated with an introduction by Richmond Lattimore; contains Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides; former owner's name to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good in lightly edgeworn covers. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1953
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1954
ISBN-13:9780226307787ISBN:0226307786
Description: Very Good+ 9780226307787. Light wear to cover. Otherwise the book is in perfect condition; pages are clean with NO markings, binding tight. Classical Studies. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 0.5 x 7.8 x 5 Inches; 170 pages. read more
"This dramatic trilogy is amazing. Unless you are intensely familiar with Greek history and myth, get a good copy of Aeschylus' writing with notes and glossary in the back. I read a Penguin publisher edition, translated by Robert Fagles. It was beautiful. The language: stunning. My vocabulary, like most eary-twenty-somethings I know,is grossly bleak. My language skills suck. The third play, The Eumenidies is the first record of a trial in dramatic history. Drama is at its core, the art of a democratic civilization. But what good is democratic law, when our power of rhetoric, our knowledge of language, or ability to use our freedom of speech is weak beyond belief? ---Classics like this have disappeared from public education. Why?. . . Why? Because standards must sink in a passive socialist society. Well, that thought is just what sprung to mind. I'm not really sure why. The point is: people should be learning about the roots of their society, how democracy was born (i.e. in the theaters of ancient Greece), and how the knowledge of language is the greatest power a person can ever hope to weild. Introducing literature such as this early on in a person's life--like, before the age of ten--will expand their linguistic potential and also get them thinking for themselves. "Thinking for oneself" That phrase reminds me of another phenomena: independant thought, questioning authority--are other abilities that recede in a Socialist society along with the ability to put thoughts, impulse, and emotion into words, much less into flexible, persuasive, powerful rhetoric. You want world peace? Brain to banish the power of brawn? Then cultivate your mind, baby. Peace talks take persausive language by people with enough knowledge of speecha and words to creatively adapt their language to persuade another body of persons into doing what they want by their own volition. Basically, if you want world peace: make your four-year-old learn Greek and Latin. Let him/her read Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound and Orestia, and you will get a freethinking, genius of a kid."
"I freaking love this book. I'm unsure as to how people can not like it. It is so full of rich imagery and ideas. I had to write a 4-6 page essay on this, and the topic was justice in the Oresteia. My thesis was essentially that the Furies think they are handing out justice in their hunt of Orestes, but they are actually only continuing the cycle of blood revenge, and also are simply avenging Clytemnestra's murder instead of thinking about whether or not it is a just punishment. Plus, their logic is unsound, since they argue that it is just fine for Clytemnestra to kill her husband (they are not related by blood), but it is abhorrent and worthy of being hunted across the earth for Orestes to kill his mother. I also liked the way in which the Oresteia continued the whole theme of rage which was started in the Iliad. Way to go, Aeschylus! :)"
""I have suffered into truth." Orestes makes that declaration in The Eumenides, the third of the trilogy of plays dealing with the House of Atreus's tendency to take empassioned revenge as their only acceptable call to action in a crisis. You expect excellence from Robert Fagles. His translations of Homer are superb. And you also expect it from Aeschylus, whose surviving plays endure and thrive in the hands of translators of craft and imagination across the centuries. Aescyhlus presents a generational migration, through suffering, to something approaching understanding, a familial tragedy that parallels an evolving sense of justice in society. Orestes finds no satisfaction in his matricide, though he (mostly) stands by the rightness of it. He is plagued by the Furies, who are also redeemed by the third play's end by Athena who must treat them with respect and understanding (as opposed to Apollo's scorn and intolerance). Instead of the next sword's cut, a jury resolves the dispute over Orestes's guilt, a jury that divides on the verdict with Athena's vote tipping the scales, not judging him innocent, as Fagles notes in a long and thoughtful introduction to the plays (read afterwards, I advise), but a justifiable homicide, one that warrants no further punishment, an end to the blood feud.
The Fagles Oresteia is superior to the very good Lattimore translation (just as his Homer is superior to Lattimore's excellent Homeric renderings-Fagles is the Michael Jordan of classical Greek translators, Lattimore and Fitzgerald the Bryant and James). Fagles's translations are brutal and elegant both, capturing the barbaric violence with a poetic voice that is passionate, with a harshness mitigated by suffering's humbling truth."
"It's easy to see why Aeschylus is still revered as one of the great dramatists of the ages. 2500 years later The Oresteia still presents poetical problems of great urgency, probing the darkest depths of the human psyche. While Agamemnon, the first work in this trilogy, is the most lauded, all three are of nearly equal value.
I'm of two minds regarding Vellacott's translation. For the most part the language is vivid and the verse is spacious and eloquent, though his fixed rhyme (which has no analog in the original Greek) is sometimes distracting -- particularly as he is in the all-too-frequent habit of forcing rhyme with unnatural enjambment. That really breaks the flow.
With a verse translation this admittedly free in its rendering, I'm always left with the nagging question of which images belong to the author and which to the translator. When I want to experience a great work of the canon that can be a bit troubling.
These quibbles aside, Vellacott's translation does an outstanding job of framing the vital images of Aeschylus' trilogy with vigor, and overall my reading experience was first rate."
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