Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)

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Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)
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published
March 1st 2004 by Cambridge University Press

binding
Paperback, 144 pages

isbn
0521010756   (isbn13: 9780521010757)

description
Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama is a series of new translations which are faithful to the original Greek plays in content and tone, but which ...more






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Ali
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04/19/07

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آشیل یا آخیلوس اهل آتن بوده و گویا در جنگ "ماراتن"(بین پارس و یونان) شرکت داشته و حدود 450 سال پیش از میلاد فوت کرده. گفته می شود که بر سنگ قبرش نوشته اند؛ "آخیلوس اهل آتن، زیر این سنگ خفته. خاک مقدس ماراتن و سربازان بلند گیسوی ماد(پارس) که طعم دلاوری او را چشیده اند، بر جنگ آ...more
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Peter
12/26/08

A new English version in syllabic verse for reading and acting.
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05/05/07

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The point is that it is inevitable for the Greek tragic hero to have a tragic flaw and it also inevitbale that gods seek vengeance when he has not satisfied them.

The point is that even the Shakespearean Tragic hero is doomed to his Hamartia and so is the modern anti hero. Perhaps this inevitability is reason enough why tragedy was regarded as the most respectable and complete form of literature in the ancient times. seems it was and is the exact portrayl of our lives. We are doomed to suffer...more
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01/10/08

Greek drama is fun! Everyone hates everyone else and the Gods curse you for things they made you do! YAY
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12/07/07

The ancient Greeks never read this as I did but most of them heard it acted out.
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"He who learns must suffer. Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." More quotes...