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,
“... translation. Jeffrey Bernstein has the wordier ‘Which of these two ways is without evil?’ David Mulroy, the punchier ‘Can either choice be right?’ Agamemnon is in a position where there is no right answer, no guiltless way to act.The terrible moment is figured as in part a choice, in part an act of compulsion: Agamemnon ‘placed his neck ... ”
