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The Oresteia - The Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Furies (Paperback)
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The Oresteia - The Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Furies (Paperback)
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The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus
which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. When
originally performed it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play
that would have been performed following the trilogy; it has not
survived. The term "Oresteia" may have originally referred to all
four plays, but today is generally used to designate only the
surviving trilogy. The only surviving example of a trilogy of
ancient Greek plays, the Oresteia was originally performed at the
Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. A
principal theme of the trilogy is the shift from the practice of
personal vendetta to a system of litigation. The name derives from
the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father after his
mother's affair with Aegisthus. Aeschylus (circa 525 BC - 455 BC)
was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can
still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and
Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our
knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding
of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his
surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of
characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas
previously characters had interacted only with the chorus. Only
seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into
modern times.
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