(PBC) The Oresteian Trilogy

基本信息

Format Paperback | 208 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 12mm | 157g

Publication date 31 Dec 1963

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS

Language English

ISBN10 0140440674

ISBN13 9780140440676

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《俄瑞斯忒亚》为古希腊作家埃斯库罗斯根据神话故事改编的戏剧。戏剧共三部，被称为《俄瑞斯忒亚》三部曲，三部分别为《阿伽门农》、《奠酒人》、《欧墨尼得》。讲述了阿伽门农死于妻子克吕泰涅斯特拉之手，克吕泰涅斯特拉被前来复仇的俄瑞斯忒斯所杀，俄瑞斯忒斯躲避复仇女神厄里倪厄斯并被迫接受审判，阿特柔斯家族的诅咒在雅典娜的干涉下被解除，复仇女神的怒火也最终得以平息的一段史诗故事。

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.

目录

The Oreteian Trilogy Introduction

Agamemnon

The Choephori or The Libation-Bearers

The Eumenides

Notes to 'Agamemnon'

Notes to 'The Choephori'

Notes to 'The Eumenides'

Appendix

Select Bibliography

The Pronunciation of Greek Names

Genealogical Table of the House of Atreus

作者简介

埃斯库罗斯，公元前525年出生于希腊阿提卡的埃琉西斯。于公元前456年去世。他是古希腊悲剧诗人，与索福克勒斯和欧里庇得斯一起被称为是古希腊最伟大的悲剧作家，有“悲剧之父”、“有强烈倾向的诗人”的美誉。代表作有《被缚的普罗米修斯》、《阿伽门农》、《善好者》（或称《复仇女神》）等。

Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, adn his epitahp represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived.

Philip Vellacott has translated Aeschylus and Euripides for the Penguin Classics. He taughts classics at Dulwich College for twenty-four years and lectured on Greek Drama in the USA. He was also a Visiting Lecturer in the University of California. He died in 1997.