Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is 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 Atreidae. This edition
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 and art, 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. The Greek text and
critical apparatus are those of D.L. Page (OCT). 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.
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