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ID: 744978

Title: Choephori

Author: Aeschylus

Narrator: Mark Bowen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:26:42

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-24

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

Summary:

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition.

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