The Choëphoroe Libation Bearers. Translated Into English Rhyming Verse by Gilbert Murray; Volume 3

<p>The Choephoroe Libation Bearers the second play in Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy continues the saga of the cursed House of Atreus. In this installment Orestes returns to Argos to avenge his father Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Haunted by the ghost of his father and spurred on by his sister Electra Orestes faces an agonizing moral dilemma: to kill his own mother and invite further divine wrath or to leave his father's death unavenged.</p><p>Gilbert Murray's translation captures the poetic and dramatic intensity of Aeschylus's original Greek rendering the ancient tragedy in accessible and evocative English rhyming verse. This edition offers readers a compelling engagement with one of the foundational works of Western literature exploring themes of vengeance justice and the cyclical nature of violence.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>