The House of Atreus
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The House of Atreus
Agamemnon comes home from Troy and is killed by his wife; his son Orestes avenges him and is hunted by the Furies until Athens judges the case.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–11
- First published
- 458 BC (first performed)
- This edition
- The three plays of the Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Furies, in E. D. A. Morshead’s verse translation, with his introductory note.
- Pages
- 142
- Prompts
- 3, one at the close of each play
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every play of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Agamemnon will not walk on the purple robes: “I hold such pride in fear.” Then he and Clytemnestra trade short lines, and in the end he has his sandals loosed and goes in. Which of her lines does most to move him? Underline it, and say in the margin why it works on this man.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages142
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts3, one at the close of each play
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 7–11