Oresteia

Aeschylus

The Oresteia is a captivating trilogy by Aeschylus, one of ancient Greeces greatest playwrights. This powerful collection includes three plays Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It unfolds the tragic saga of the House of Atreus, a family beset by a curse that drives its members toward a fate steeped in blood and vengeance. As the story begins, the Trojan War has come to an end, and the victorious Greek general, Agamemnon, returns home to his wife, Clytemnestra. However, their reunion is marred by her unresolved anger over his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, made to ensure fair winds for the fleet. Clytemnestras thirst for revenge sets in motion a chain of events that leads to dire consequences, capturing the essence of human tragedy. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) This show includes AI-generated content.

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Episódios

86 episódios

  1. Stories from Virgil-Alfred John Church 5:13:20
  2. Enchanted Castle-E. Nesbit 8:33:39
  3. Knyght Ther Was-Robert F. Young 2:18:46
  4. Tis Pity She's a Whore-John Ford 2:42:24
  5. Children of Odin-Pádraic Colum 6:23:38
  6. Demi-Gods-James Stephens 4:37:43
  7. Golden Porch-W. M. L. Hutchinson 7:12:53
  8. Three Hundred Aesop's Fables-Aesop 5:54:25
  9. Furies (Morshead Translation)-Aeschylus 1:06:51
  10. Finnish Legends-R. Eivind 4:35:08
  11. Venus and Adonis 1:07:05
  12. Faerie Queene Book 1-Edmund Spenser 5:22:12
  13. Faust II-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7:21:26
  14. Oresteia-Aeschylus 4:19:36
  15. Psyche-Molière 2:00:52
  16. Orestes-Euripides 1:49:50
  17. House of the Wolfings-William Morris 8:17:47
  18. Songs of a Sentimental Bloke-C. J. Dennis 2:08:11
  19. Peer Gynt-Henrik Ibsen 5:18:35
  20. Faust I-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4:19:02
  21. Once on a Time-A. A. Milne 5:40:16
  22. Mother’s Nursery Tales-Katharine Pyle 6:36:17
  23. Agamemnon (Browning Translation)-Aeschylus 1:44:52
  24. Agamemnon (Morshead Translation)-Aeschylus 2:27:35
  25. Seven Against Thebes-Aeschylus 1:10:05
  26. Drama of Exile-Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2:03:01
  27. 1 - Venus and Adonis 1:08:35