Agamemnon

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780299306342
  • 26 januari 2016
  • 104 pagina's
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Aeschylus

Aeschylus (born at Eleusis, near Athens, c. 525 BC; died at Gela, Sicily, 456 BC) was the dramatist who first made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, though in his epitaph he preferred that he should be remembered as one of those who fought the Persians at Marathon. Although he is said to have written over seventy plays, only seven have survived.

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A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus’s trilogy The Oresteia.

Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War, bringing 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 was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, a forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides. His earlier tragedies were largely choral pageants with minimal plots. In Agamemnon, he retains the lyricism of those works, but he infuses this drama with such creativity and energy that the spectator or reader is constantly spellbound. From the speech of the weary watchman on the roof, lying on his forepaws like a dog, to the blood-splattered Clytemnestra who likens herself to a garden in bloom, passage after passage demands to be included in anthologies of Greece’s greatest poems.

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. The Agamemnon no longer needs to be called a difficult play.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
26 januari 2016
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104
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Hoofdauteur
Aeschylus
Tweede Auteur
Aeschylus
Hoofdredacteur
The Perfect Library
Tweede Redacteur
Denys Page

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Eerste Vertaler
Peter Arcese
Tweede Vertaler
E. D. A. Morshead

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127 mm
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13 mm
Product lengte
201 mm
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152 mm
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229 mm
Verpakking lengte
8 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
525 g

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9780299306342

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