An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides (Paperback)

An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides By Anne Carson (Translated by), Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Cover Image
By Anne Carson (Translated by), Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra and Euripides' Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes is driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family. Condemned to death by the people of Argos, he and Elektra must justify their actions — or flout society, justice and the gods.

Carson's translation combines contemporary language with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up this ancient tale of vengeance to a modern audience and revealing the essential wit and morbidity of the original plays.

About the Author


Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics. She has been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Lannan Literary Award and two Griffin Poetry Prizes. Carson won the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2021.

Born in Eleusis, he served in the army, was wounded at Marathon (490BC) and probably fought at Salamis (480). His plays include: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, SUppliants and the Oresteia, which comprises three plays about the murder of Agamemnon and its consequences and was his last great success on the Athenian stage (458).


Product Details
ISBN: 9780865479166
ISBN-10: 086547916X
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: March 2nd, 2010
Pages: 272
Language: English