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Professor Sommerstein here presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Eumenides is of all Athenian tragic dramas the one most consciously designed to be relevant to the situation of the Athenian state at the time of its performance (458 BC), and seems to have contained daring innovations both in technique and in ideas. The introduction and commentary to this edition seek to bring out how Aeschylus shaped to his purpose the legends he inherited, and ended the tragic story of Agamemnon's family in a celebration of Athenian civic unity and justice. The commentary also pays detailed attention to the linguistic, metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader.
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Professor Sommerstein presents here a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the final play in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. As well as paying detailed attention to the linguistic, metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader, the editor seeks to bring out how Aeschylus shaped to his purpose the legends he inherited, and ended the tragic story of Agamemnon's family in a celebration of Athenian civic unity and justice.
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Aeschylus was born at Eleusis near Athens in 525 BCE and died in Sicily in 456 BCE. He took part in the Persian Wars and fought at Marathon. Considered the father of Greek tragedy, he wrote more than seventy plays, of which seven have survived.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0521240840
- ISBN 13 9780521240840
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
- EditorSommerstein Alan H.
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