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The Oresteia
Aeschylus
Drama
James Mustich
Jul 28, 2018
If you seek between covers an education in the trials and tribulations, the hopes and fears, the terrors and triumphs of the human spirit, the majestic tragedies of the ancient Greeks are the place to begin, and perhaps the place to end as well. In their beautiful, haunting, unsparing plays, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—these, alas, are the only tragedians whose works have weathered the centuries—expose the skeleton of human experience with preternatural vision. Freud was right to look for keys to our nature in the elemental confrontations the plays depict; the legacy of these works seems a gift from the gods, a mysterious clue to the puzzles of our hearts and minds. No summary can convey the elemental forces that animate Aeschylus’s work. Informed by the imaginative richness of the myths and epics that preceded it, the trilogy’s wisdom looms like an awesome natural wonder over the philosophical reasoning that Plato and Aristotle would leave in its wake. The truths The Oresteia tells are as ineluctable as fate, and just as enduring.
They've weathered the test of time because their themes are universal and tragic.
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The story arc around the Furies across the three plays is masterful, with a slowly rising sense of their menace culminating in a dramatic, unexpected trial scene at the end that brings profound questions about government and justice. Has some tough bits to read, but totally worth it. Get a version with a good introduction and annotations, the context is important to understanding it.
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The House of Atreus was very interesting. The name Atreus is close to Atredies and made me think of Frank Herbert's Dune books. I can't wait until the Library is open again so I can check those books out.
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It was a bit of a hard read at first, but if you take the time to look at the themes and the actual story it is a rewarding experience.
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