Multimedia Collection
The Oresteia of Aeschylus
VHS
74 minutes
PA3827 .A7 W53 2001
(Parts 1 and 4:) The brothers Agamemnon and Menelaus, warlords at Troy, return home to their wives, the sisters Clytemestra and Helen. (Parts 2 and 3:) Orestes does a great wrong as a duty, and the Furies contest for him against Apollo.
The ancient drama was described by the poet Swinburne as the finest achievement of the human mind. We are within a prism where the past recurs and the future is foreseen. The work is not an image of life, but a Dionysian entertainment, a ceremony, an act of worship.
A version by William Whallon including the lost satyr play. Directed by Bill Vincent.
Distributed by b/v productions.
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