Ah, how miserable!
Emily Wilson: Three New Oresteias, 8 October 2020
The Oresteia
by Aeschylus, translated by Oliver Taplin.
Liveright, 172 pp., £17.99, November 2018,978 1 63149 466 6 Show More
by Aeschylus, translated by Oliver Taplin.
Liveright, 172 pp., £17.99, November 2018,
The Oresteia
by Aeschylus, translated by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein.
Carcanet, 288 pp., £16.99, April 2020,978 1 78410 873 1 Show More
by Aeschylus, translated by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein.
Carcanet, 288 pp., £16.99, April 2020,
The Oresteia
by Aeschylus, translated by David Mulroy.
Wisconsin, 234 pp., £17.50, April 2018,978 0 299 31564 1 Show More
by Aeschylus, translated by David Mulroy.
Wisconsin, 234 pp., £17.50, April 2018,
“... Aeschylus’ Oresteia begins with the story of a grieving, righteously angry woman seeking justice for her daughter. The child was killed by her father, the woman’s husband, in order to enable a vast war. Each of the three plays is radically different in style, mood and action. But each centres on female anger and female grief at violent loss of life and the willingness of family members to kill one another ... ”