Choephori

This new edition of Choephori takes into account the abundance of recent scholarship on Aeschylus'' work. A. F. Garvie''s introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean Orestes tradition in literature and art the character of the play itself--its ideas imagery structure and staging--and the state of the transmitted text. This edition reprints the Greek text and critical apparatus from the well-received Oxford Classical Text edited by D. L. Page and includes 350 pages of commentary devoted to problems of interpretation style and dramatic technique.