Oresteia

First performed in 458BC Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.