The translation's precise but complicated rhythms honor the music of the Greek, bringing into unforgettable English the Aeschylean vision of a world fraught with spiritual and political tensions. This new translation is faithful to the strangeness of the original Greek and to its enduring human truth, expressed in language remarkable for poetic intensity, rich metaphorical texture, and a verbal density that modulates at times into powerful simplicity. The trilogy thus traces the evolution of justice in human society from blood vengeance to the rule of law, Aeschylus' contribution to a Greek legend steeped in murder, adultery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and endless intrigue. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides. "Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet.Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.Īeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations): 1 by Aeschylus, Aeschylus at .uk - ISBN 10: 0199753636 - ISBN 13: 9780199753635 - Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
"Grene is one of the great translators." Conor Cruise O'Brien, "London Sunday Times" This book, in particular, was drawn from the epic poems of Homer and his successors and. "The critical commentaries and the versions themselves.are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional." "Commonweal" Aeschylus II: The Oresteia - The Complete Greek Tragedies (1P). A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead." Warren D. "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic their idiom is contemporary.They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase." "Times Education Supplement" Go out and buy it everybody." Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation"
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