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A curated edition gathers the seven surviving tragedies of an early Greek dramatist, accompanied by fragmentary remains, translator’s notes, and alternative choral renderings. The dramas range from a firsthand-style account of military catastrophe to mythic treatments of divine resistance, enforced exile, supplication, and the transition from private vengeance to public adjudication. Formal features include prominent choral odes, austere staging effects, and elevated poetic rhetoric, with the translator experimenting in metre and providing annotations. Recurring concerns are the tension between divine law and human agency, communal ritual, and the foundations of civic order.

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Title: Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Author: Aeschylus

Translator: E. H. Plumptre

Release date: September 30, 2016 [eBook #53174]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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ÆSCHYLOS
TRAGEDIES
AND
FRAGMENTS

Translated by the late
E. H. PLUMPTRE D.D.
Dean of Wells

WITH NOTES AND RHYMED CHORAL ODES

IN TWO PARTS
BOSTON U.S.A.
D. C. HEATH & CO. PUBLISHERS
1901