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Agamemnon, king o Argos , returns to Greece triumphant following victory over Troy-only to be brutally murdered by his wife Klytaimestra. Their son Orestes returns from exile and, commanded by the god Apollo, reluctantly murders her in retribution for his father's death. He flees to Delphi, and then to Athens, pursued by Furies intent on avenging Klytaimestra's death. The goddess Athena founds the court of the Areopagus to try the case, and Apollo and the Furies argue over Orestes' future. Can the court stop further bloodshed inside the house of A treus-and can the Athenians escape the consequences, if they acquit Orestes?

"[T]his vivid free-verse translation of Aeschylus' dark and bloody tragic trilogy...evinces Hughes's wide range of interests and mastery of classic literatures....[A]n essential further installment in the always interesting oeuvre of a gifted poet who was also a diligent scholar."

Kirkus, 06/01/1999

"The problem is not that Hughes adapts or adds to the poem....But Hughes's changes move out and away from the text rather than deeper into it."

Garry Wills, New York Times Book Review, 09/05/1999

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