Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides)

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 work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

Author: David R. Slavitt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/01/1997
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780812216271

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/1998 pg. 232

About the Author
David R. Slavitt was educated at Andover and Yale and has published more than sixty books: original poetry (recently Eight Longer Poems), translations (recently Broken Columns, of Statius and Claudian), novels (recently Lives of the Saints), critical works (recently Virgil), and short stories. He worked for seven years as a journalist at Newsweek and continues to do freelance reporting and reviewing. With Palmer Bovie he coedited the series Complete Roman Drama in Translation.