Aeschylos : Eumeniden : Griechisch und Deutsch, mit erläuternden Abhandlungen

Author(s)

• Aeschylus
• Müller, Karl Otfried

Bibliographic Information

Aeschylos : Eumeniden : Griechisch und Deutsch, mit erläuternden Abhandlungen

edited by Karl Ottfried Müller

（Cambridge library collection, . Classics）

Cambridge University Press, 2010

• : pbk

Other Title

Aeschylos, Eumeniden : Griechisch und Deutsch, mit erläuternden Abhandlungen

Aeschylos Eumeniden : Griechisch und Deutsch : mit erläuternden Abhandlungen über die äussere Darstellung, und über den Inhalt und die Composition dieser Tragödie

Note

Greek and German on opposite pages. Notes in German

Original t.p. reads: Aeschylos Eumeniden : Griechisch und Deutsch : mit erläuternden Abhandlungen über die äussere Darstellung, und über den Inhalt und die Composition dieser Tragödie, von K.O. Müller

Originally published: Göttingen : Im Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1833

Errata at end

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Karl Ottfrid von Muller's translation of and commentary on Aeschylus' play The Eumenides, the concluding drama in the Oresteia trilogy, was first published in 1833. The play is a reenactment of the Greek legend of the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes in Athens. Orestes' mother Clytemnestra had killed her husband, and as an act of revenge Apollo ordered Orestes to murder her. Orestes is hounded by the Eumenides (Furies) and travels first to Delphi to have his blood-guilt purified and then to Athens to seek the help of Athena. She decides that an impartial jury of Athenian citizens should decide the fate of Orestes, who is acquitted. Muller does not only deliver a translation of the play, but provides the reader with the tools for a wider interpretation by exploring the role of the chorus, the significance of the costumes and the composition of the play itself.

Table of Contents

• Vorwort
• Eumeniden
• Erlauternden abhandlungen
• 1. Abhandlung: Ueber die aussere Darstellung der Eumeniden
• 2. Erlauternde abhandlung: Ueber den Inhalt und die Composition der Eumeniden
• Register.

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Details

• NCID: BB08510748
• ISBN:
  • 9781108015615
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: ger
• Text Language Code: grcger
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 203, [1] p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA3825
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Erinyes (Greek mythology) -- Drama
  • LCSH : Orestes (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB00083053