Oresteia

The story of the Oresteia is the Athenian myth of how justice came into being.

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

The story of the Oresteia is the Athenian myth of how justice came into being.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

The drama we get reading The Oresteia is not the same drama its viewers got watching it first performed, because there's a level of incommensurability due to cultural differences (we don't think in terms of miasma).

More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

While it has the political overtones mentioned, to me the best description was given by Emerald City as Sophocles in space, though I would have called it Aeschylus in space since Oresteia is the most appropriate classical reference.

The State of Science Fiction, Part III Lou Anders 2006

From ancient Greek plays like Aeschylus 'tragic "Oresteia" -- literature's first courtroom drama -- to modern successors such as "Twelve Angry Men," the dispensing of justice has always provided a stage for high principles and base emotions to collide irresistibly.

THE DRAMA OF THE COURT 2007

From ancient Greek plays like Aeschylus 'tragic "Oresteia" -- literature's first courtroom drama -- to modern successors such as "Twelve Angry Men," the dispensing of justice has always provided a stage for high principles and base emotions to collide irresistibly.

The Drama of the Court 2007

If one views the Ring as a cosmic drama on the scale and of the scope of Aeschylus' Oresteia, which is probably the best analogue to the Ring, then there has to be catharsis.

Archive 2007-06-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

If one views the Ring as a cosmic drama on the scale and of the scope of Aeschylus' Oresteia, which is probably the best analogue to the Ring, then there has to be catharsis.

Götterdämbiguity Patrick J. Smith 2007

I am sorry to see that Professor Lloyd-Jones in his review of the two volumes of Who was Who in the Roman and Greek Worlds in your issue of 16 December comments that Betty Radice's Who's Who in the Ancient World informs its readers that "the second and third plays of the trilogy called Oresteia ... are called Electra and Orestes."

What's What McFarlan, Donald 1983

People have been arguing about this for half a century, but I’m not the person to settle the question: As it happens, this full-evening version of the Oresteia was the first work of Graham’s I ever saw, back in 1958, its first season, (I’d spent the previous 10 years soaking up ballet), and I was overwhelmed.

Where Are the Choreographers? City Ballet Tries and Tries Again 2009