![]() ![]() Aeschylus had a very different tale of homecoming to tell in his Oresteia. Homer's Odyssey recounted Odysseus' perilous journey home, the forceful ejection of the suitors from his household and his reunion with wife Penelope and son Telemachus. ![]() Nothing could equal the sublime emotion with which the Agamemnon inspired me and to the last word of the Eumenides, I remained in an atmosphere so far removed from the present day that I have never since been really able to reconcile myself with modern literature." Aeschylus' audience were all familiar with the tale of one man's return home from the Trojan War. "I could see the Oresteia with my mind's eye. The composer Richard Wagner recalled the visceral sensations of reading Aeschylus' great trilogy for the first time. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ‘Oresteia’, the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus. ![]()
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