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Author / Creator:Euripides, author.
Uniform title:Orestes. English
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Description:1 online resource (x, 111 pages).
Language:English
Series:The Greek tragedy in new translations
Greek tragedy in new translations.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178101
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ISBN:1429406127
9781429406123
9786610528066
6610528063
0195096592
9780195096590
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Summary:Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that, starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.
Other form:Print version: Euripides. Orestes. English. Orestes. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995