Oresteia
About This Novel
Aeschylus's three-series "The Oresteia" is the foundation work of ancient Greek tragedy. From Marx and Nietzsche to modern feminism, this text has always been highly valued by Western intellectual circles and can be called a classic. But Aeschylus's obscure and difficult Greek makes reading and interpretation of the play quite difficult. In this extremely short book, the famous classicist Professor Goldhill focuses on the social background and ideological conditions when "Oresteia" was born, and uses the method of classical philology to carefully explain the complexity and ambiguity of key words in the play. He grasps the core issue of "how do we understand justice, revenge, violence and people's responsibilities to society and each other", and deeply explores the energy contained in the work itself.
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