An Oresteia

by Aeschylus and Sophocles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086547916X
• ISBN13: 9780865479166
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"