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Aeschylus' Oresteia.

The major part of Conacher's work is a detailed running commentary on, and dramatic analysis of, the three plays. It is supplemented in notes and appendixes by discussions of the philological problems relevant to the interpretation, and by a sampling of other scholaraly views on a number of con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conacher, D. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ONE / AGAMEMNON
  • 1 Introductory comment: the play and the trilogy
  • 2 Prologue and parodos (vv 1-257)
  • 3 First episode and first stasimon (vv 258-487)
  • 4 Second episode (the 'Herald scene') and second stasimon (vv 489-781)
  • 5 Third episode (Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) and third stasimon (vv 782-1034)
  • 6 Fourth episode, including first kommos (the 'Cassandra scene') (vv 1035-1330)
  • 7 Fifth episode and second kommos (the off-stage murder and its aftermath) (vv 1343-1576)
  • 8 Exodos (the 'Aegisthus scene') (vv 1577-1673)
  • Appendix 1 to chapter 1: Problems in the parodos of Agamemnon
  • i: The anger of Artemis
  • ii: 'Knowledge through suffering' in the 'Hymn to Zeus'
  • iii: The guilt of Agamemnon
  • Appendix 2 to chapter 1: The entry of Clytemnestra, with particular reference to vv 489-502
  • TWO / CHOEPHORI (THE LIBATION BEARERS)
  • 1 Preliminary comment
  • 2 Prologue, parodos, and first episode (vv 1-305)
  • 3 The 'great kommos' (vv 306-478)
  • 4 Second episode and first stasimon (vv 479-651)
  • 5 Third episode (vv 652-782)
  • 6 Second stasimon (vv 783-837)
  • 7 Fourth episode (vv 838-934) and third stasimon (vv 935-72)
  • 8 Exodos (vv 973-1076)
  • THREE / EUMENIDES
  • 1 Prologue, parodos, and first episode (vv 1-234)
  • 2 Second episode, part 1 (vv 235-53)
  • second parodos (vv 254-75)
  • second episode, part 2 (vv 276-306)
  • 3 First stasimon (vv 307-96)
  • 4 Third episode (vv 397-488)
  • 5 Second stasimon (vv 490-565)
  • 6 Fourth episode (vv 566-777)
  • the 'trial scene'
  • 7 The 'conversion' of the Erinyes (vv 778-1020)
  • the escorting of the Erinyes to their new home (vv 1021-47)
  • Appendix to chapter 3: Some views on the political and social aspects of the Eumenides
  • i: Preliminary comment
  • ii: Political aspects of the Eumenides.
  • Iii: The 'male-female conflict' in the Eumenides and in the trilogy
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY.