| #202283 in Books | imusti | 2009-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.10 x.80 x7.70l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Oxford University Press USA||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Plain vanilla|By HH|Collard's explanatory notes provide much helpful guidance and information, with particular attention paid to recurring imagery and themes, and with many cross-references to other notes or to the introductory essay (in the latter case sometimes by page number, sometimes, less helpfully, by reference to a sub-section of a section). Less frequent are references|About the Author||Christopher Collard was Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1975 until his retirement in 1996. He has published annotated editions of Euripides' Suppliant Women, Hecuba, and Sele
The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate and the gods decree that each generation will repeat the crimes and endure the suffering of their forebears. When Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Cl...
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