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Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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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)
  • 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

About the author

John Peck, author of five books of poetry, is a Jungian analyst in Brattleboro, Vermont, who has taught English at Princeton University, Mt. Holyoke College, and the University of Zurich. Frank Nisetich is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the author of Pindar's Victory Songs and Pindar and Homer.