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The Oresteia

Aeschylus

200896 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Oxford University Press · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780199537815
  • 2015Oberon Books, Limited · 96 pages · ENGISBN 9781783199006
  • 2015Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 120 pages · ENGISBN 9781474274319
  • 2018University of Wisconsin Press · 264 pages · ENGISBN 9780299315603
  • 2015Digireads.com · 150 pagesISBN 9781420951073
  • 2011Broadway Play Pub · 134 pagesISBN 9780881454901
  • 2018W. W. Norton & Company · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780393923285
  • 2014University of California Press · 288 pagesISBN 9780520282100

"Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done - and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written."--Publisher description.

How it reads

ComplexityLayered

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ThemesFamily
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