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Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Paperback - 1995
by Euripides; Translator-John Peck; Translator-Frank Nisetich
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- Title Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
- Author Euripides; Translator-John Peck; Translator-Frank Nisetich
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1995-06-08
- Features Glossary, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0195096592
- ISBN 9780195096590 / 0195096592
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.72 x 0.3 in (21.49 x 14.53 x 0.76 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Tragedies, Orestes (Greek mythology) - Drama
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94039711
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
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From the rear cover
Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that, starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.
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Citations
- Library Journal, 08/01/1995, Page 74