The Oresteia

by Aeschylus

Books that mention The Oresteia (4)

• The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth: “He taught them The Poetics, The Oresieia, Passage to India... taught them all like holy books”
• Aftermath by Rachel Cusk: “Aeschylus, The Oresteia (epigraph); later “Agamemnon, in the Oresteia of Aeschylus, returns to his palace in Argos””
• Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “We discuss the Oresteia, in which two children, Electra and Orestes, murder their mother, Clytemnestra”
• Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Aeschylus's tragic trilogy, the Oresteia, being the richest example”