REVIEWS

“In their day, these poetic, highly stylized tragedies were chanted rather than acted....Thus they work particularly well in audio format. This production makes the most of modern technology to create haunting choral effects. The individual actors are all well cast, and their performances are evenly balanced.”—KLIATT

"The greatest achievement of the human mind."—Algernon Charles Swinburne

"In this terrifying masterpiece of his last years, Aeschylus passed through tragedy and out onto the other side: to a Divine Comedy of the stage."—C. J. Herington, Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama

"The Oresteia is perhaps the most unusual tragedy in the theater of the West and certainly one of the very greatest."—David Grene, University of Chicago scholar and noted translator of ancient Greek texts

AESCHYLUS (525 BCE - 456 BCE) was the earliest of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece whose work has survived to the twenty-first century. He fought bravely in the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE), which inspired his first surviving play, The Persians. According to legend, he died in Sicily when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.