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Oresteia by Aeschylus
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Book Title
- Oresteia
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780872203907
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0872203905
ISBN-13
9780872203907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
676314
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Oresteia
Subject
Theater / General, European / General, Ancient / Greece, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Drama, Performing Arts, History
Series
Hackett Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
6.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-037825
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
Peter Meineck's new rendition of the Oresteia is that rare and wonderful thing: a text accessible to the Greekless audience while still preserving the vocabulary of Aeschylus. Those of us who have seen Peter Meineck's performances have long marveled at his ability to turn Greek into clear English, how he does not do 'versions' of the plays, how he does not rewrite the ancients into modern jargon (even his comedies maintain more Aristophanic text than is usual). Here lines that students have always needed explicated stand clear. . . . Helene Foley has provided a fine introduction for this translation. Introduction and translation together provide an exciting text, one that should be widely read, widely used. --Karelisa Hartigan, University of Florida, in The Classical Outlook, . . . a translation for the stage by an experienced man of the theater. Its virtues are very real, and, though Meineck makes them seem easy, very hard to achieve. The idiom is contemporary without yielding to the siren song of gimmicky updating; it manages to be clear without betraying Aeschylus' complexity or sacrificing his intricate imagery. What makes it effective on stage makes it work on the page, too. With the added guidance of Helene Foley's characteristically intelligent Introduction and Meineck's own crisp annotation and full stage directions, this translation offers the most approachable and in many ways most communicative Oresteia now available. It will be the Oresteia of choice for many teachers and their students, as well as for readers interested in what makes Greek tragedy great theater. --Peter Burian, Duke University
Dewey Decimal
882/.01
Synopsis
Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the images--of the Aeschylean text. After reading this translation, one has but one further wish: to see it and hear it at Delphi, Epidaurus or Syracuse. --Herman Van Looy, L'Antiquite Classique
LC Classification Number
PA3827.A7M45 1998
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