The Oresteia - Aeschylus torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Theatre Ancient Greece Dramatization
Written by Aeschylus
Read by Full Cast (Blackstone Audio)
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Dramatization

Listening Length: 3 hours and 37 minutes

In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War, only to be treacherously slain by his own wife. It ends with the trial of their son, Orestes, who slew his mother to avenge her treachery - a trial with the goddess Athena as judge, the god Apollo as defense attorney, and, as prosecutors, relentless avenging demons called The Furies. The results of the trial change the nature of divine and human justice forever.

Also included is an excerpt from Blackstone’s dramatization of The Odyssey, in which Agamemnon’s brother Menelaus learns of the events of The Oresteia from Proteus, the sea god.