Aeschylus: Libation Bearers

Libation Bearers is the ''middle'' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus'' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its...