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| #2641853 in Books | 2010-07-26 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.17 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 72 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Good translation|By an avid reader|This is a very good translation of Orestes. The story, tragic as it is, moves along as a riveting story with unique characters. It is short enough to be an easy read, but long enough to tell the tale. Very good work.|From Library Journal|Drawing on the material of the Orestia, Euripides's Orestes is a strange and disturbing play, condemning all of its heroes for their violence and criminality and culminating in one of the most wildly absurd deus ex machinas in Greek tragedy.
The play begins with a soliloquy that outlines the basic plot and events that have led up to this point from Electra, who stands next to a sleeping Orestes. Shortly after, Helen comes out of the palace under the pretext that she wishes to make an offering at her sister Clytemnestra’s grave. As in most of the plays of Classical Greece, Helen is portrayed as a vacuous floozy. Some commentators criticize Euripides as being a misogynist; however his dialogue is often v...
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