The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406505269 (1406505269)
Publish date: March 1st 2006
Publisher: Dodo Press
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Ancient,
Tragedy,
Mythology
Series: Ορέστεια -3 (#1)
As much as I wanted to love this book, it was only "meh". Don't get me wrong, it is a masterpiece, but it is a historical masterpiece, not a current one. This book has two main things going against it. One, it is not really even a book. It is a play, so reading this is similar to reading a script, ...
Agamemnon is one of the Oresteian trilogy that followed the story of Agamemnon's homecoming from the Trojan Wars and the subsequent tragedy that lead from his unfaithful wife, Clytemnestra. This play of Agamemnon concentrates on Clytemnestra, the comparison with Odysseus's wife, Penelope and the det...