![]() Considered by the Greeks the “father of tragedy,” Aeschylus, “more than anyone,” according to classical scholar C. ![]() Richard Lattimore, “Introduction to the Oresteia” in The Complete Greek TragediesĬalled by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “the masterpiece of masterpieces” and by Algernon Charles Swinburne “the greatest achievement of the human mind,” Aeschylus’s Oresteia is the monumental accomplishment of drama’s greatest early visionary and progenitor. ![]() ![]() Trilogy whose special greatness lies in the fact that it transcends the limitations of dramatic enactment on a scale never achieved before or since. ![]()
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