Aeschylus Aeschylus

For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound , this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus Bound as part of a tragic trilogy, and this translation is unique in including the extant fragments of the companion plays.

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration.

"Орестея" - единственная дошедшая до нас целиком древнегреческая драматическая трилогия, посвященная проблеме трагической судьбы рода. Сюжет "Орестеи" заимствован из поэм троянского цикла. В основу ее положен миф о потомках Атрея, над которыми тяготеет проклятие за преступление их предка.