Aeschylus

The seven surviving tragedies of Aeschylus (The Persians, Seven against Thebes, The Suppliants, the Oresteia trilogy made up of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, and Prometheus Bound), Greek text with Herbert Weir Smyth's Loeb translation (1922-1926) in parallel. The earliest of the three tragedians: the invention of the second actor, the only trilogy to survive whole, and the line from the Agamemnon that named a whole way of thinking about suffering, pathei mathos, through suffering, knowledge. A general Introduction, a Notice for each play, and line-anchored Notes accompany the text, on the model of the great scholarly editions.

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