 | The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) Classics S. by Aeschylus
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.45 Fagles' translation; a little vague, but the Introduction is an excellent aid to approaching the thematic structure of the Oresteia. A must for any beginner. Beware the all-pervading Shakespearianisms
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 | The Oresteia: A Translation of Aeschylus' Trilogy of Plays (Faber poetry) by Aeschylus
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £1.66 Ted Hughes' seminal version, which, directed by Katie Mitchell in 1999, still impacts modern productions (haunted by Iphigeneia's ghost).
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 | Oresteia (Oxford World's Classics) by Aeschylus
Buy used from: £0.01 Collard's sound and sensitive translation is an invaluable aid for anyone getting to grips with the Greek for the first time. Indispensable aid for the undergraduate translator!
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 | Tony Harrison Plays: v. 4 (Contemporary classics) by Tony Harrison
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £3.75 Tony Harrison's visceral, masterly translation is a must-read for any fan of the Oresteia (but only after you have got to grips with the Greek!).
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 | Greek Tragedy in Action by Oliver Taplin
Buy new: £16.23 / Used from: £14.25 Taplin's classic work: no serious student of Greek tragedy should be without it.
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 | The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Oliver Taplin
Buy new: £28.50 / Used from: £75.76 Crucial, seminal interpretation of Aeschylus: don't leave home (for your Finals) without it!
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 | A Greek-English Lexicon: With a Revised Supplement by Henry G. Liddell
Buy new: £112.99 / Used from: £80.97 You should already have one of these... But just in case...
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 | Lexicon Aeschylceum. Edidit G. Dindorfius by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf
Hard to get hold of, but if you can find an Aeschylus-specific lexicon, it saves an awful lot of time.
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 | The Oresteia by H LloydJones
Buy used from: £3.26 Ideally, you ought to look at HLJ's edition of the Greek (available as a Loeb). His notes are always illuminating (though the trans. may not be)!
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| The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (Myth and Poetics) by Leslie Kurke
Buy used from: £130.63 Useful for understanding what happens to Argos as Agamemnon and Orestes leave, and return, in turns.
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 | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £6.72 Re-read Menelaus' account of Agamemnon's death, and all Telemachus' appearances... Never forget: "slices from the banquet of Homer"...
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 | The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.00 Remind yourself of Iphigeneia and her fate.
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 | Electra: And Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.05 Suppliant Women, Andromache and Hecuba all useful reminders of what Agamemnon left smoking behind him.
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![Iphigenia [DVD] [1977] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eMYGLBtxL._SL75_.jpg) | Iphigenia [DVD] [1977] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £38.00 Michael Cacoyannis' wonderful film. His Hecuba and Electra are also fantastic evocations and interesting to any student of the Oresteia.
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![The Trojan Women [DVD] [1971] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XM03K2NPL._SL75_.jpg) | The Trojan Women [DVD] [1971] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £23.70 Cacoyannis' Trojan Women - sublime
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![Electra [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y6Q6ZFPCL._SL75_.jpg) | Electra [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £9.97 Cacoyannis' Electra - haunting
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