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Choephori (Paperback)
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Choephori (Paperback)
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Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori stands as the second play
in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play
with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here
continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death
by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play,
Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreiadae.
This edition (first published in hardback in 1986) takes into
account the large amount of recent research on the play and tackles
the problems presented by an unusually corrupt text. The
introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in
literature (from Homer to Pindar) and art (representations on vases
and reliefs), as well as the place of Choephori within the
Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of
staging the play, and the manuscript tradition. Much of the
commentary looks at problems of style, dramatic technique, and
interpretation of the play, and before each scene is discussed an
analysis of its contribution to the drama as a whole is supplied.
The text and critical apparatus reproduced are those of D. L. Page
(Oxford Classical Texts).
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