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The Oresteia - Hughes, Ted, and Aeschylus
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The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal house of Atreus, it follows a singularly harrowing course, from the bloodiest domestic discord to divine intervention and reconciliation. Ted Hughes's translation was written in his most pared-down and powerfully driven verse, at once equal to Aeschylus's tragic vision and speaking directly to modern audiences and readers. The ...

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The Oresteia 1999, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780374227210

American edition

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The Oresteia 1999, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571179961

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Mass-market paperback