Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE.
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