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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ONE / AGAMEMNON -- 1 Introductory comment: the play and the trilogy -- 2 Prologue and parodos (vv 1-257) -- 3 First episode and first stasimon (vv 258-487) -- 4 Second episode (the 'Herald scene') and second stasimon (vv 489-781) -- 5 Third episode (Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) and third stasimon (vv 782-1034) -- 6 Fourth episode, including first kommos (the 'Cassandra scene') (vv 1035-1330) -- 7 Fifth episode and second kommos (the off-stage murder and its aftermath) (vv 1343-1576) -- 8 Exodos (the 'Aegisthus scene') (vv 1577-1673) -- Appendix 1 to chapter 1: Problems in the parodos of Agamemnon -- i: The anger of Artemis -- ii: 'Knowledge through suffering' in the 'Hymn to Zeus' -- iii: The guilt of Agamemnon -- Appendix 2 to chapter 1: The entry of Clytemnestra, with particular reference to vv 489-502 -- TWO / CHOEPHORI (THE LIBATION BEARERS) -- 1 Preliminary comment -- 2 Prologue, parodos, and first episode (vv 1-305) -- 3 The 'great kommos' (vv 306-478) -- 4 Second episode and first stasimon (vv 479-651) -- 5 Third episode (vv 652-782) -- 6 Second stasimon (vv 783-837) -- 7 Fourth episode (vv 838-934) and third stasimon (vv 935-72) -- 8 Exodos (vv 973-1076) -- THREE / EUMENIDES -- 1 Prologue, parodos, and first episode (vv 1-234) -- 2 Second episode, part 1 (vv 235-53) -- second parodos (vv 254-75) -- second episode, part 2 (vv 276-306) -- 3 First stasimon (vv 307-96) -- 4 Third episode (vv 397-488) -- 5 Second stasimon (vv 490-565) -- 6 Fourth episode (vv 566-777) -- the 'trial scene' -- 7 The 'conversion' of the Erinyes (vv 778-1020) -- the escorting of the Erinyes to their new home (vv 1021-47) -- Appendix to chapter 3: Some views on the political and social aspects of the Eumenides -- i: Preliminary comment -- ii: Political aspects of the Eumenides |
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Iii: The 'male-female conflict' in the Eumenides and in the trilogy -- BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
The major part of Conacher's work is a detailed running commentary on, and dramatic analysis of, the three plays. It is supplemented in notes and appendixes by discussions of the philological problems relevant to the interpretation, and by a sampling of other scholaraly views on a number of controversial points |
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Print version record |
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Aeschylus. Oresteia.
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Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- In literature
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Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) |
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Oresteia (Aeschylus) fast |
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Tragedy.
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tragedies.
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tragedy (general genre)
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Literature
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Tragedy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442670679 |
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1442670673 |
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