The Oresteia: A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Oliver Taplins new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedya trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argoswith explanatory annotations by the editors, ancient backgrounds and responses from Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Euripides and Sophocles, fourteen wide-ranging critical essays on the Oresteia, from G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche to Oliver Taplin and Peter Wilson, a Glossary of Technical Terms and Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography. See more