The Oresteia (FULL Audio Book)
by Aeschylus (525/524 BC -- c. 455/456 BC)
translated by E. D. A. Morshead (1849-1912)
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and Read more [...]