Book description
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in
which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be
murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his
city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with
his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's
bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own
children.
AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A
statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave.
Simon Goldhill (introducer) is Professor of Greek at Cambridge
University and a Fellow of King's College where he is Director of
Studies in Classics. He has published widely on many aspects of Greek
literature, especially tragedy. He is in great demand as a lecturer
all over the world, and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and
television on classical matters.
Shomit Dutta (editor) was educated at University College Oxford, and
King's College London, and has taught classics at Radley College and
Harrow School, and Oxford. He is also a freelance arts reviewer, and
has published a translation of Sophocles' Ajax (Cambridge).
