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Literary Criticism Ancient & Classical

Aeschylus' Oresteia

by (author) D.J. Conacher

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Apr 1989
Category
Ancient & Classical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802067470
    Publish Date
    Apr 1989
    List Price
    $26.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442670679
    Publish Date
    Apr 1989
    List Price
    $81.00

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Description

Traditionally, books on Greek tragedy tend to fall into two classes: scholarly editions with commentaries on textual, linguistic, and detailed interpretive points, and literary-critical studies which sometimes include summary treatments of questions involving a detailed study of the texts. Classics specialists tend, for obvious reasons, to concentrate on the former. Readers of translations have, of necessity, been limited to the latter kind of aid in their reading of the works of the Greek tragedians, works that are often unfamiliar particularly in their cultural context. D.J. Conacher has brought these two approaches together in this comprehensive study of the three plays of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

The major part of Conacher's work is a detailed running commentary on, and dramatic analysis of, the three plays. It is supplemented in notes and appendixes by discussions of the philological problems relevant to the interpretation, and by a sampling of other scholaraly views on a number of controversial points.

About the author

D.J. Conacher was a professor emeritus of the Department of Classics, Trinity College, University of Toronto. He was the recipient of numerous postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships and awards including the Nuffield Travelling Fellowship for Research at Oxford, Research Travel Grants from the Humanities Research Council and the Canada Council, and a Visiting Research Scholarship at Fondation Hardt, Geneva.

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