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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Most characters in this play were despicable. Murderers, adulterers, fools, tyrants, sadists. I just can't feel compassion for any of them. Really hard to think about nuances of justice when i just want them all to die. Perhaps that's the point of the play. It is so emotionally pleasing to imagine justice based on revenge but it might not be a good system in the long run. Hm, did i learn something here? ( ) I found Lattimore's translation difficult to read and ended up supplementing it with the YouTube video of the (British) National Theater production of Tony Harrison's translation, which I found easier to understand. Even that was difficult in places but perhaps because I was busy trying to match up the video with the text... So for this particular edition I give 3 stars - for the play itself, I give 4 stars. This is the epitome of what I think of when I hear the term "Greek tragedy" - the inescapable fate, the chorus, the justice and yet the pity. When re-reading this, I could not stop comparing Agamemnon with the Game of Thrones! I had not realised how much J R R Martin had taken from the Oresteia. Although I must say.... as much as I love him, he doesn't hold a candle to Aeschylus. I wonder if the series will follow the same path as the Oresteia, and end with the birth of democracy? There were some hints it could happen in the last season, in conversations between Tyrion and Daenerys. Clytemnestra is one of the greatest villains ever in literature. This is the more affordable of the two significant 20th Century editions of the Agamemnon, the other one being Fraenkel's magisterial three-volume edition (unfortunately priced only for the library or the specialist). Denniston and Page provide an edition with good apparatus, and engage intelligently with previous critics, providing a usable and helpful presentation of the text. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieThe Oresteia (1) Appartient à la série éditorialeReclams Universal-Bibliothek (1059) Est contenu dansThe Harvard Classics [50 Volume Set] par Charles William Eliot (indirect) De grekiska tragedierna : Aiskylos, Sofokles, Euripides ; i översättning av Tord Bæckström par Aischylos (indirect) Eén familie, acht tragedies par Aeschylus (indirect) The Portable Greek Reader par W. H. Auden (indirect) The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides; and Prometheus Bound par Aeschylus (indirect) The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes par Encyclopedia Britannica (indirect) Great Books Of The Western World - 54 Volume Set, Incl. 10 Vols of Great Ideas Program & 10 Volumes Gateway To Great Books par Robert Maynard Hutchins (indirect) GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD--54 Volumes 27 volumes 1961-1987 GREAT IDEAS TODAY (Yearbooks) 10 volumes GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS 10 volumes GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM. Total 101 Volumes. par Robert Maynard Hutchins (indirect) The Great Books Foundation, Set Three, Volume Two: Mann, Death in Venice; Aeschylus, Oresteia. par The Great Books Foundation (indirect) The Complete Greek tragedies par David Grene (indirect) Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansPossède un guide de référence avecContient une étude deContient un commentaire de texte deContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantListes notables
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ruler in heaven, Zeus, heralds the end of this cycle and the beginning of hope. Zeus has suffered and sinned and grown wise, and thereby shows humans how to grow wise also. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque
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