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Oedipus the King
E.D.A. Morshead
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R500
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The Persians (Paperback)
Aeschylus; Translated by E.D.A. Morshead
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R212
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The Persians (Paperback)
Aeschylus; Translated by E.D.A. Morshead
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R177
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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.
Aeschylus begins in Greece describing the return of king Agamemnon
from his victory in the Trojan War, from the perspective of the
towns people (the Chorus) and his wife, Clytemnestra. However dark
foreshadowings build to the death of the king at the hands of his
wife, who was angry at his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia,
killed so the Gods would stop a storm hindering the Greek fleet in
the war. She was also unhappy at his keeping of the Trojan
prophetess Cassandra as a concubine. Cassandra foretells of the
murder of Agamenon, and of herself, to the assembled townsfolk, who
are horrified. She then enters the palace knowing that she cannot
avoid her fate. The ending of the play includes a prediction of the
return of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, who will seek to avenge his
father.
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The Frogs (Paperback)
E.D.A. Morshead; Aristophanes
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R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
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The Frogs is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright
Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals
of Dionysus in Athens, in 405 BC, where it won first place. The
Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the
state of Athens' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring the
playwright Euripides back from the dead. (Euripides had died the
year before, in 406 BC). He brings along his slave Xanthias, who is
smarter and braver than Dionysus. The play opens as Xanthias and
Dionysus argue over what kind of jokes Xanthias can use to open the
play. Aristophanes (circa 446 BC - 386 BC), son of Philippus, of
the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.
Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These, together
with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real
examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they
are used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy
and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to
recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any
other author.
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