Four Plays of Aeschylus

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E. D. A. Morshead's translations of four Aeschylus plays — The Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) plus Prometheus Bound — represent the complete civic and mythological imagination of the oldest playwright in the Western canon. The Oresteia in particular, the only complete Greek tragic trilogy to survive, traces the evolution from blood-feud justice to civic law: a founding myth of civilization itself. Morshead's Victorian verse is formal and dignified; it captures the grandeur of Aeschylus better than it captures the poetry, but it makes the complete Oresteia accessible in a single portable volume.