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"These translations from Aeschylus are the best I
have ever read'* edith Hamilton
In his forceful and vigorous new translation, Paul
Roche reveals for the modern reader the power
and grandeur of Aeschylus' great trilogy.
Aeschylus, the greatest of the Greek dramatists,
brought to the theater a new art of narration and
action, and a new concept of man and the divine.
Here is his chronicle of the aristocratic house of
Atreus; of its hereditary curse, which impels hus-
band and wife, son and daughter, to become the
willing instruments of murder and revenge; and
of the gods who preside over their tragic, human
destiny.
¦ x
ip
PAUL ROCHE, who spent his early
years in India, was brought up in
London and educated at Ushaw
College, Durham, later graduating from
the Gregorian University in Rome
with a Ph.B,, and Ph.L. in Scholastic
Philosophy. He has taught at Smith
College, which he left with a Bollingen
Foundation fellowship to translate
Greek tragedy. He has...
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Fülszöveg
"These translations from Aeschylus are the best I
have ever read'* edith Hamilton
In his forceful and vigorous new translation, Paul
Roche reveals for the modern reader the power
and grandeur of Aeschylus' great trilogy.
Aeschylus, the greatest of the Greek dramatists,
brought to the theater a new art of narration and
action, and a new concept of man and the divine.
Here is his chronicle of the aristocratic house of
Atreus; of its hereditary curse, which impels hus-
band and wife, son and daughter, to become the
willing instruments of murder and revenge; and
of the gods who preside over their tragic, human
destiny.
¦ x
ip
PAUL ROCHE, who spent his early
years in India, was brought up in
London and educated at Ushaw
College, Durham, later graduating from
the Gregorian University in Rome
with a Ph.B,, and Ph.L. in Scholastic
Philosophy. He has taught at Smith
College, which he left with a Bollingen
Foundation fellowship to translate
Greek tragedy. He has lectured widely
in the United States and in England.
His poetry and short stories haye
appeared in leading publications; he
has conducted his own programs of
poetry on television and radio in the
United States, and has broadcast over
the BBC. His translation of
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
is available in a Mentor edition.
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