The Oresteian Trilogy (Record no. 69131)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 01560nam a2200205Ia 4500
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20261007115746.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780140440676
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 882.1 AES
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Aeschylus
245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Oresteian Trilogy
Statement of responsibility, etc / Aeschylus ; edited by Philip Vellacott
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Softcover
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Penguin Classics
Date of publication, distribution, etc ,1956
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 203p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Anger still unreconciled/Poisoning a house’s life/With darkness, treachery and strife’<br/>Aeschylus (525–c.456 BC) set his trilogy in the immediate aftermath of Troy's defeat, when King Agamemnon returns victorious to Argos. Agamemnon depicts the hero’s discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife’s infidelity & ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra’s crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills her & her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies’ law of vengeance & depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.<br/>Philip Vellacott’s verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetry
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 08/06/2026   882.1 AES G8008 08/06/2026 08/06/2026 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
© Copyright Shiv Nadar University 2012. All Rights Reserved.  Disclaimer |  Sitemap
The Shiv Nadar University has been established under U.P. Act No 12 of 2011. Shiv Nadar University is UGC Approved.