Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by David Raeburn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time, and includes a reprint of D. L. Page's Oxford Classical Text of the play. The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia trilogy as a whole, and the historical context in which the plays were produced. It discusses Aeschylus' handling of the traditional myth and the main ideas which underpin his overall design: such as the development of justice and the nature of human responsibility; and it emphasizes how the power of words, seen as ominous speech-acts which can determine future events, makes a central contribution to the play's dramatic momentum. Separate sections explore Aeschylus' use of theatrical resources, the role of the chorus, and the solo characters. Finally there is an analysis of Aeschylus' distinctive poetic style and use of imagery, and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions.
Download or read book The Tomb of Agamemnon written by Cathy Gere and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II) Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, still stands in a remote corner of mainland Greece. Revered in antiquity as the pagan world's most tangible connection to the heroes of the Trojan War, Mycenae leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. Now Mycenae is one of the most haunting and impressive archaeological sites in Europe, visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination. As the backdrop to one of the most famous military campaigns of all time, Agamemnon's city has served for generation after generation as a symbol of the human appetite for war. As an archaeological site, it has given its name to the splendors of one of Europe's earliest civilizations: the Mycenaean Age. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins--from the Cult of the Hero that sprung up in the shadow of the great burned walls in the eighth century bc, to the time after Schliemann's excavations when the Homeric warriors were resurrected to play their part in the political tragedies of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the diction in this narrower sense, there is a quality of atmosphere surrounding the Agamemnon which seems almost to defy reproduction in another setting, because it depends in large measure on the position of the play in the historical development of Greek literature.
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary on Aeschylus' Agamemnon offers the reader a thorough introduction, extensive notes, and separate sections which explore Aeschylus' use of theatrical resources, an analysis of his distinctive poetic style and use of imagery, and an outline of the transmission of the play from 458 BC to the first printed editions.
Download or read book The Problem of the Agamemnon written by Edward Selwyn Hoernle and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelson s Cat and the Agamemnon Eyepatch written by Bob Greatorex and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphaned kitten, rescued from the jaws of a vicious dog by a young naval captain, Horatio Nelson, is taken on board the battleship HMS Agamemnon to control mice and rats in the hold. The year is 1793 and Britain’s navy is about to go to war with France. Terrified of cannons, mice and rats the kitten has to learn about life at sea, but struggles to overcome his fears. Follow the cat’s adventures as he is befriended by a cabin boy and is helped by a manger full of animals to adapt to the life of a ship’s cat. Against regulations he smuggles a young monkey onto the ship and with his help starts to rid the hold of mice. Finally, despite being injured, he is charged with the task of ridding the ship of two fearsome giant rats. How can he get the monsters off the ship and keep his place amongst the friends he has made on board. Failure is not an option.
Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated Into English Rhyming Verse With Explanatory Notes written by Aeschylus and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1920-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Works of Robert Browning The Agamemnon of AEschylus La Salsiax Dramatic idyls Jocoseria written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus tr by a Balliol man written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated by Hugh S Boyd written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agamemnon of schylus La Saisiaz Dramatic idyls Jocoseria written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus with a metrical tr and notes by B H Kennedy written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aristophanes apology The inn album The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Oresteian Trilogy written by Aeschylus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-07-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.
