In the "Oresteia" - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.
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Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, adn his epitahp represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived.
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robert fagles is one of the leading translators of greek literature today. His work on the iliad and the odyssey has been subject to numerous awards and his standard is no lower here. known for his freeness or non-literalness in translation, aeschylus oresteia is a perfect candidate for him. Aeschylus was known for his unruly sentences and grammatical forms even in athens, and fagles endeavours to recreate them. the result is a gripping translation of one of the most popular plays ever written -- the athenians performed it every year. the story of how athens got its government, it is unbelieveably dramatic.
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