Descrizione

First Edition. With the monthly letter laid in. With eleven striking full page illustrations by Michael Ayrton. Folio, handsomely bound in half crimson calf over natural finished cloth, stamped in gilt on the upper cover, the spine with cloth label gilt lettered and modeled after the half-title. xviii, [2], 177 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

Edizione: fine copy of the first prize winning trilogy in 458 b.c. with introduction by rex warner. "the oresteia, also known as the house of atreus, is the only complete trilogy of greek dramas that has come down to us. these 3 plays relate the melodramatic story - based on greek mythology - of agamemnon, king of mycenae, his wife clytemnestra, their son orestes, and their associates. while agamemnon is away at the trojan war, his wife takes a lover, aegisthus, and conspires with him to slay her husband upon his return. the murder is the subject of the first play, the agamemnon. the second, the libation bearers, relates orestes' vengeance on the lovers; and the final drama, the furies, describes his trial and absolution.