Author: Aeschylus; E. D. A. Morshead [translator]
Title: The Oresteia
Description: New York , The Heritage Press, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A stunning volume of The Oresteia, a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by the father of tragedy. The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th Century BC. The trilogy consists of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Furies.Aeschylus was an Ancient Greek tragedian and is often described as the father of tragedy. Agamemnon is the first of the three plays and concerns Agamemnon's homecoming after the end of the Trojan War. However, what awaits him at home is his vengeful and distraught wife, Clytemnestra, who is planning to murder Agamemnon for his brutal sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia. The Libation Bearers sees Orestes, Agamemnon's son, murder Clytemnestra in revenge for her murder of Agamemnon. Within The Furies Orestes is hunted and tormented by the furies. The trilogy concerns the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trail of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Erinyes. This stunning large copy of the trilogy is translated from the Greek by E. D A. Morshead with an introduction by Rex Warner and emotively and beautifully illustrated by Michael Ayrton. With nine colour illustration and a slipcase.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a faded spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In a slipcase that has a few marks to the boards. Fine . Ill.: Michael Ayrton. Fine .

Keywords: The oresteia aeschylus agamemnon the libation-bearers aeschylus Michael Ayrton


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