Aeschylus, 1 - The Oresteia

The Penn Greek Drama Series

The first in the Penn Greek Drama Series, this volume offers translations of the great trilogy of the House of Atreus. It tells of Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, of Electra's rebelliousness, and of Orestes' ultimate revenge. The Oresteia is surely the most influential and arguably still the best dramatic work ever written.

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. Forty acclaimed poets and writers have contributed translations of individual plays. Through them, the reader will gain fresh access to the menace, grandeur, and sheer entertainment of the classical texts.