The Oresteia
Written by Aeschylus
Narrated by LibriVox Community
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About this audiobook
Cast:
AGAMEMNON, king of Mycenae - StephenC
AEGISTHUS, cousin to Agamemnon - mb
ORESTES, son of Agamemnon - David O’Connell
CLYTEMNESTRA, wife of Agamemnon - Christie Nowak
CASSANDRA, a Trojan princess - Kristin Hughes
ELECTRA, sister of Orestes - Claire Goget
APOLLO, god of the Delphic oracle - Andrew Lebrun
ATHENA, goddess of wisdom - Catharine Eastman
PYTHIA, a priestess of Apollo - Kirsten Ferreri
A WATCHMAN at Mycenae - Joe Earley
A HERALD from Troy - tipaew
NURSE to Orestes and Electra - Elizabeth Klett
ATTENDANT of Aegisthus - Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit
ATTENDANT WOMAN of Athena - Jennifer Stearns
NARRATOR - Justin Barrett
CHORUS in Agamemnon - Andy Minter
CHORUS in The Libation-Bearers - Jc Guan
CHORUS in The Furies - Kara Shallenberg, Rosalind Wills, and Christie Nowak
PYLADES - Annoying Twit
Book Coordinators: Kirsten Ferreri, Sarah Jennings, Elizabeth Klett, and David Lawrence
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (c.525-455 B.C) was an ancient Greek playwright and solider. Scholars’ knowledge of the tragedy genre begins with Aeschylus’ work, and because of this, he is dubbed the “father of tragedy”. Aeschylus claimed his inspiration to become a writer stemmed from a dream he had in which the god Dionysus encouraged him to write a play. While it is estimated that he wrote just under one hundred plays, only seven of Aeschylus’ work was able to be recovered.
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Reviews for The Oresteia
8 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Why, oh why is this in “Christian Fiction”? Makes no sense.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The performances are mixed, a few very good, some... less so... as to be expected in a Librevox audio (none of them are being paid). The big difficulty comes in when there are multiple speakers: there seems to be a great deal of distortion-- perhaps from trying to synchronize speakers at different rates?-- that makes the dialogue very hard to make out. Some of these are key to the plot, so you may need to have a text handy if you are not already familiar.