Libation Bearers

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474255080

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Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by C. W. Marshall Pdf

Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786940988

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Libation Bearers by Aeschylus Pdf

The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, one of the outstanding masterpieces of Greek literature. This edition, including text, translation and commentary, seeks to take full account of the latest advances in scholarship while making the play accessible to a wide range of readers

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474255097

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Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by C. W. Marshall Pdf

Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681462639

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The Libation-Bearers by Aeschylus Pdf

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600085566

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The house of Atreus, being the Agamemnon, Libation-bearers, and Furies of Æschylus, tr. into Engl. verse by E.D.A. Morshead by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101625847X

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The Oresteia of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Aeschylus,
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199537815

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Oresteia by Aeschylus, Pdf

The Oresteian trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) established the themes of Greek tragedy - the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. The plays dramatize the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, the revenge of her son Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athens. This new translation seeks to preserve the plays' qualities as theatre and as literature.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112541

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The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus Pdf

DIVClassic trilogy by great tragedian concerns the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand style, rich diction and dramatic dialogue. Still powerful after 2500 years. /div

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : PSU:000029815142

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Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : John Herington
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300036434

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Aeschylus by John Herington Pdf

Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525-456 BC) is called the creator of the art of tragedy in the Western tradition. Author of "The Persians," "Seven Against Thebes," "The Suppliants," "Oresteia," and "Prometheus Bound." A historical, biographical, and literary study. Hermes series on classical authors.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534673539

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The Choephori by Aeschylus Pdf

The Choephori - The Libation Bearers - Aeschylus The Libation Bearers is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reunion of Agamemnon's children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Orestes kills Clytemnestra to avenge the death of Agamemnon, Orestes' father. Storyline Orestes arrives at the grave of his father, accompanied by his cousin Pylades, the son of the king of Phocis, where he has grown up in exile; he places two locks of his hair on the tomb. Orestes and Pylades hide as Electra, Orestes' sister, arrives at the grave accompanied by a chorus of elderly slave women (the libation bearers of the title) to pour libations on Agamemnon's grave; they have been sent by Clytemnestra in an effort "to ward off harm" (l.42). Just as the ritual ends, Electra spots a lock of hair on the tomb which she recognizes as similar to her own; subsequently she sees two sets of footprints, one of which has proportions similar to hers. At this point Orestes and Pylades emerge from their hiding place and Orestes gradually convinces her of his identity. Now, in the longest and most structurally complex lyric passage in extant Greek tragedy, the chorus, Orestes, and Electra, attempt to conjure the departed spirit of Agamemnon to aid them in revenging his murder. Orestes then asks "why she sent libations, what calculation led her to offer too late atonement for a hurt past cure" (l.515-516). The chorus responds that in the palace of Argos Clytemnestra was roused from slumber by a nightmare: she dreamt that she gave birth to a snake, and the snake now feeds from her breast and draws blood along with milk. Alarmed by this, a possible sign of the gods' wrath, she "sent these funeral libations" (l.538). Orestes believes that he is the snake in his mother's dream, so together with Electra they plan to avenge their father by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her new husband, Aegisthus.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435019614023

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Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Libation-bearers. Eumenides. Fragments. Appemdix. Addendum: New text of fr.50 by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : George Anastaplo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0739107801

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On Trial by George Anastaplo Pdf

Beginning with the serpent in the Garden of Eden and ending with O.J. Simpson, author George Anastaplo offers an exploration of justice and the rule of law through well-known trials both ancient and modern, real and fictional. On Trial is a detailed and fascinating discussion of legal reason, moral judgment, political life, and the events that give them meaning.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Classical drama
ISBN : UOM:49015002005446

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Aeschylus : in two volumes. 2. Agamemnon, Libation-bearers, Eumenides, Fragments ; the appendix containing the more considerable fragments published since 1930 and a new text of Fr. 50 by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : Michael Earley,Philippa Keil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0878300325

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The Classical Monologue, Men by Michael Earley,Philippa Keil Pdf

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.