The Oresteia

Ranked #2 Translation of 2018 by Open Letters Review

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

Oliver Taplin’s new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedy-a trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argos-with explanatory annotations by the editors.

Ancient backgrounds and responses from Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Euripides, and Sophocles. ? Fourteen wide-ranging critical essays on the Oresteia, from G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche to Oliver Taplin and Peter Wilson.

A Glossary of Technical Terms and Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

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