Wiley-Blackwell, 2023. — 592 p. In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination — the first comprehensive one in English — of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious,...
De Gruyter, 2014. — xiv, 218 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary, Vol. 26). — ISBN: 978-3-11-033431-9, 978-3-11-033433-3. The book examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. By reading the play's narrative...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. — XVI, 195 p. Prolegomena: The Manuscripts. Some Editions and Commentaries. Appendix. The evidence for Casaubon’s work on Aeschylus. John Pearson’s share in Stanley’s Aeschylus. Sigla librorum. Text and translation. plates: I. Ms Tr (Farnes. Neap. ii. F. 31): Ag. 1-14 (at end). Ms F (Laur. xxxi. 8): End of hypothesis of Ag., Ag. 1-13 (at end).
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. — 481-850 p. Commentary on 1056-1673. On the Postponement of certain Important Details in Archaic Narrative. On the Weapon with which, according to the Oresteia, Agamemnon was murdered. Cho. 001-1006. The Footprints in the Choephoroe. Short Syllables before Initial Mute and Liquid in the Lyrics of Aeschylus. The Word-order in Ag. 1434 οὔ μοι φόβου...
2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded. — London, Oxford, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. — X, 102 p. This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further reading, ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek...
Brill Academic, 2017. — 634 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 11). Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been revisioned and adapted over the last 2500 years, focusing both on his theatrical reception and his reception in other media and genres.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 198 p. Libation Bearers is the "middle" play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 198 p. Libation Bearers is the "middle" play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985. — 592 p. Il sera superflu de répéter pour ce troisième volume les éloges que nous avons formulés pour les volumes précédents ( 1, 2 et 4) de la réédition des TGF [v. AC 41 (1972) pp. 651-653 ; 47 (1978) pp. 609-611 et 52 (1983) pp. 302-304]. Du point de vue de la forme et de l'ordonnance des testimonia et des fragments, ce volume est...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on a historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on a historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his...
Routledge, 2017. — 240 p. This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ "Seven Against Thebes" is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war and its attendant trauma. The volume features contributions from an international cast of experts, as well as a conversation...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 174 p. One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices - the exile, and Eteocles - reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with six other champion warriors and their armies,...
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