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Title: Story of Orestes
A Condensation of the Trilogy

Author: Richard G. Moulton

Release Date: October 16, 2006 [EBook #19559]

Language: English

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BOOK OF

ILLUSTRATIONS

ANCIENT TRAGEDY

RICHARD G. MOULTON

CHICAGO

The University of Chicago Press

1904

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE ANCIENT DRAMA

(TRAGEDY)

CONTENTS

STORY OF ORESTES [_Oresteia_], A TRILOGY BY Aeschylus
AGAMEMNON
THE SEPULCHRAL RITES [_Choephori_]
THE GENTLE GODDESSES [_Eumenides_]

ELECTRA, by Sophocles

ELECTRA, by Euripides

ALCESTIS, by Euripides

THE CYCLOPS, by Euripides

THE BACCHANALS, by Euripides

MISCELLANEOUS PASSAGES

REFERENCES

_In the case of Aeschylus and Sophocles the numbering of lines agrees
with that in the translations of Plumptre and in the original. In the
plays from Euripides the numbering is that of the lines in the cheap
translation (Routledge's Universal Library)._

[Transcriber's note: In the original book, the line numbers mentioned
above were right-justified. In this e-book, they are enclosed in curly
braces, and placed immediately after their associated line of text,
e.g. ". . . a line of text {123}".]

A CONDENSATION OF THE TRILOGY

STORY OF ORESTES

[_ORESTEIA_]

BEING THE ONLY GREEK TRILOGY, OR THREE-PLAY DRAMA, WHICH HAS COME DOWN
TO US COMPLETE

CONSISTING OF

MORNING PLAY:

AGAMEMNON

MIDDAY PLAY:

THE SEPULCHRAL RITES

[_CHOEPHORI_]

AFTERNOON PLAY:

THE GENTLE GODDESSES

[_EUMENIDES_]

COMPOSED BY AESCHYLUS, AND BROUGHT ON THE STAGE AT ATHENS AT THE
FESTIVAL OF THE 'GREATER DIONYSIA,' IN MARCH OF 458 B. C., DURING THE
POLITICAL EXCITEMENT OCCASIONED BY THE POPULAR ATTACK ON THE
ARISTOCRATIC COURT OF MARS' HILL, OR AREOPAGUS

The passages quoted are from Plumptre's Translation

MEMORANDUM

The Sacred Legends touched by this Trilogy would be familiar, in
outline, to the Auditors: e. g.:

The woes of t