Aeschylus, 1
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides)

David R. Slavitt (Edited and translated by)

9780812216271

Paperback / softback, published 1 November 1997

178 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

"What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."-Gordon Williams

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.