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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