# The Oresteia

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- Book: [The Oresteia](https://www.bookquiver.com/eschilo/the-oresteia) ([The Oresteia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eschilo/the-oresteia.md))
- Authors: [Eschilo](https://www.bookquiver.com/eschilo)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-333-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 1977-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- 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.