Aeschylus, 1
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)

David R. Slavitt, Editor and Translator

178 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paper 1997 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1627-1 | $18.95s | £12.50 | Add to cart
A volume in the Penn Greek Drama Series

"What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."—Gordon Williams

Praise for the series:

"A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible.'. . . For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces."—Boston Book Review

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

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