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    The Oresteia
    The Oresteia
    The Oresteia
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    The Oresteia

    Written by Aeschylus

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences, instigates the action of these poetic tragedies. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

    Cast:
    AGAMEMNON, king of Mycenae - StephenC
    AEGISTHUS, cousin to Agamemnon - mb
    ORESTES, son of Agamemnon - David O’Connell
    CLYTEMNESTRA, wife of Agamemnon - Christie Nowak
    CASSANDRA, a Trojan princess - Kristin Hughes
    ELECTRA, sister of Orestes - Claire Goget
    APOLLO, god of the Delphic oracle - Andrew Lebrun
    ATHENA, goddess of wisdom - Catharine Eastman
    PYTHIA, a priestess of Apollo - Kirsten Ferreri
    A WATCHMAN at Mycenae - Joe Earley
    A HERALD from Troy - tipaew
    NURSE to Orestes and Electra - Elizabeth Klett
    ATTENDANT of Aegisthus - Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit
    ATTENDANT WOMAN of Athena - Jennifer Stearns
    NARRATOR - Justin Barrett
    CHORUS in Agamemnon - Andy Minter
    CHORUS in The Libation-Bearers - Jc Guan
    CHORUS in The Furies - Kara Shallenberg, Rosalind Wills, and Christie Nowak
    PYLADES - Annoying Twit

    Book Coordinators: Kirsten Ferreri, Sarah Jennings, Elizabeth Klett, and David Lawrence

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    Aeschylus

    Aeschylus (c.525-455 B.C) was an ancient Greek playwright and solider. Scholars’ knowledge of the tragedy genre begins with Aeschylus’ work, and because of this, he is dubbed the “father of tragedy”. Aeschylus claimed his inspiration to become a writer stemmed from a dream he had in which the god Dionysus encouraged him to write a play. While it is estimated that he wrote just under one hundred plays, only seven of Aeschylus’ work was able to be recovered.

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    • 1/5
      Why, oh why is this in “Christian Fiction”? Makes no sense.
    • 3/5
      The performances are mixed, a few very good, some... less so... as to be expected in a Librevox audio (none of them are being paid). The big difficulty comes in when there are multiple speakers: there seems to be a great deal of distortion-- perhaps from trying to synchronize speakers at different rates?-- that makes the dialogue very hard to make out. Some of these are key to the plot, so you may need to have a text handy if you are not already familiar.