The Oresteian Trilogy (Penguin Classics)

For decades after the battle of Marathon, Athenians were plagued by questions of justice, its relation to revenge, and its reconciliation with religion, human emotion and fate. These issues inspired Aeschylus’ grim tragedies The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides. Milestones in dramatic history, these plays focus on the bloody murder and vengeance sequence in the royal family of Argos, a string of death and destruction finally severed by the intervening goddess Athene. Translator Philip Vellacott brings the verse to thrilling life for contemporary readers.