AESCHYLUS The Eumenides

This edition of Aeschylus' triumphantly reconciliatory final play of the Oresteian trilogy presents a newly constituted text that diverges substantially from Page's OCT of 1972. The translation is in prose, with literary and historical commentary, and an introduction dealing with myth, historical background and suggested staging of the play. There are also several appendixes.

Anthony Podlecki is a retired Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia in Canada and in 1999 held a visiting post as lecturer in Classics at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous studies in archaic and classical Greek history and literature. He has published translations of Euripides' Medea (2nd ed. 1998) and Aeschylus' The Persians (revised 1991). He is the author of Perikles and his Circle (Routledge, 1998). A revised version of his study The Political Background of Aescylean Tragedy has recently appeared (Bristol Classical Press, 1999).

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CONTENTS Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION I. The Myth before Aeschylus; cult of the Semnai; early conceptions of the Erinyes II. Staging A. The design of the early theatre B. The staging of Eumenides III. Philosophy - and Politics IV. Influence A. Ancient literature B. Ancient art. C. The Myth in later literature and music V. The Eumenides and its place in the work of Aeschylus; Diké (Justice) in The Oresteia; the moral of the trilogy VI The text and its transmission PARALLEL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Apparatus Criticus Appendixes I. Athenian judicial procedure as reflected in the trial scene II. Athena's vote III. The choral metres General Bibliography Illustrations

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