Aeschylus's play Agamemnon was first produced at the City Dionysia in Athens in 458 BC, where it was the first of three plays that together constituted the Oresteia. The Oresteia…

The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event-the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written-Persians appears in Deborah H…

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a…

Aeschylus 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…

Aeschylus 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…

Aeschylus 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…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

This classic translation of Aeschylus's Oresteia into Danish by Peter Oluf Bronsted remains a landmark work for students and scholars of classical literature. With its fluid style and sensitive attention…