Eumenides / Aeschylus ; edited by Alan H. Sommerstein.

By: Aeschylus

Contributor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics: Publisher: Cambridge England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989Description: xi, 308 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0521240840; 0521284309 (pbk.); 9780521284301; 9780521240840Subject(s): Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- DramaDDC classification: 882/.01 LOC classification: PA3825 | .E7 1989Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only

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Summary: Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Of all Athenian tragic dramas, Eumenides is most consciously designed to be relevant to the situation of the Athenian state at the time of its performance (458 B.C.) and seems to have contained daring innovations both in technique and in ideas. The introduction and commentary to this edition seek to bring out how Aeschylus shaped to his purpose the legends he inherited, and ended the tragic story of Agamemnon's family in a celebration of Athenian civic unity and justice. The commentary also pays attention to the linguistic, metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader.

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Item type	Current library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books / Monographs	Dominican University College Library / Collège Universitaire Dominicain Hours of operation: Monday - Thursday 8am - 8:30 pm; Friday 8am - 4pm \| Les heures d'ouverture : Lundi à jeudi de 8 h à 20 h 30; vendredi 8h - 16h Standard shelving location / Rayonnage standard	PA 3521 .C353 A38 E85 2004 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available		120863-1001

Text in Greek; introd. and commentary in English.

"First published 1989. Reprinted 1993, 1995, 1999. Transferred to digital printing 2004."

Bibliography: p. viii-xi and index.

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_tThe legend
_g1 --
_g2
_tErinyes, Eumenides and Semnai
_g6 --
_g3
_tThe Areopagus and homicide
_g13 --
_g4
_tThe life and work of Aeschylus
_g17 --
_g5
_tJustice and the gods
_g19 --
_g6
_tA play for its day
_g25 --
_g7
_tProduction and staging
_g32 --
_g8
_tThe text
_g35 --
_tSigla
_g37 --
_tEumenides
_g39 --
_gAppendix
_tlyric metres
_g287.

Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Of all Athenian tragic dramas, Eumenides is most consciously designed to be relevant to the situation of the Athenian state at the time of its performance (458 B.C.) and seems to have contained daring innovations both in technique and in ideas. The introduction and commentary to this edition seek to bring out how Aeschylus shaped to his purpose the legends he inherited, and ended the tragic story of Agamemnon's family in a celebration of Athenian civic unity and justice. The commentary also pays attention to the linguistic, metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader.

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