Agamemnon - Couverture souple

Aeschylus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299306348 ISBN 13 : 9780299306342

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2016

Synopsis

Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War. He has brought with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. Awaiting him is his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who is angry at Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia to the gods, jealous of Cassandra, and guilty of taking a lover herself. The events that unfold catch everyone in a bloody net, including their absent son Orestes.

Aeschylus (525/4-456/5 B.C.E.) was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, a forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides. His early tragedies were largely choral pageants with minimal plots. In Agamemnon, choral songs still predominate, but Aeschylus infuses them with such dramatic feeling that the spectator or reader is constantly spellbound.

Translator David Mulroy brings this ancient tragedy to life for modern readers and audiences. Using end rhyme and strict metrics, he combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His translations of The Complete Poetry of Catullus and of Sophocles' Theban trilogy--Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus--are all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299306348
• ISBN 13: 9780299306342
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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