The New York Times

Melding 3 Ancient Versions of the Ultimate Greek Tragedy

At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context. By David Belcher Staging “The Oresteia,” Aeschylus’s epic ...
TheWrap

‘Oresteia’ Off Broadway Review: A Famous Greek Family Has Way Too Many Problems

Since Aeschylus’ trilogy “Oresteia” isn’t long enough, Robert Icke’s new update gives it a prequel. What is merely talked about in “Agamemnon,” the first play in the trilogy, is now played out on ...
The Forward

For Israel, a predicament that would be familiar to the authors of Greek tragedy

In 2018, a tragedy unfolded in Israel. Unusually, this one ended with rounds of applause, not ammunition. The curtain had fallen on the Gesher Theater’s production of Aeschylus’ great trilogy, the ...
JSTOR Daily

The Tragic Vision of Aeschylus

Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge ...