# The Oresteia

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- Book: [The Oresteia](https://www.bookquiver.com/aeschylus/the-oresteia) ([The Oresteia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/aeschylus/the-oresteia.md))
- Authors: [Aeschylus](https://www.bookquiver.com/aeschylus)
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- ISBN: 978-03-9392-328-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2018-03-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the Oresteia - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.