Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
2018
Description
- 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.