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Aeschylus Oresteia

Alexanderson, B. ‘Forebodings in the Agamemnon’ Eranos. 67 (1969) 1-23

H. Bacon ‘The Furies’ homecoming’ Classical Philology 96 (2001) 48-59

A.M. Bowie 'Religion and politics in Aeschylus' Oresteia' Classical Quarterly 43 (1993) 10-31

A.L. Brown ‘The Erinyes in the Oresteia: real life, the supernatural, and the stage’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983) 13-34

A.L. Brown ‘Eumenides in Greek Tragedy’ Classical Quarterly 34 (1984) 260-81

D. Cohen ‘The theodicy of Aeschylus: justice and tyranny in the Oresteia’ Greece and Rome 33 (1986) 129-141, reprinted in I. McAuslan and P. Walcot (ed.) Greek Tragedy (Oxford 1993) 45-57

D.J. Conacher Aeschylus’ Oresteia: A Literary Commentary (Toronto 1987)

E.R. Dodds ‘Morals and politics in the Oresteia’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 6 (1960) 19-31, reprinted in The Ancient Concept of Progress (Oxford 1973) ch. 4

K.J. Dover ‘The political aspect of the Eumenides’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 77 (1957) 230-7, reprinted in Greek and the Greeks (Oxford 1987) 161-75

K.J. Dover ‘Some neglected aspects of Agamemnon's dilemma’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 93 (1973) 58-69, reprinted in Greek and the Greeks (Oxford 1987) 135-50

Furley, W.D. ‘Motivation in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon’ Classical Philology. 81 (1986) 109-21

S. Goldhill The Oresteia (Cambridge 1992) [an introductory study: Goldhill has also written a longer and more demanding book, Language, sexuality, narrative: the Oresteia(Cambridge 1984)]

Goward, B. Aeschylus : Agamemnon (London 2005)

M. Griffith ‘Brilliant dynasts: power and politics in the Oresteia’ Classical Antiquity 14 (1995) 62-129

Hammond, N.G.L. ‘Personal Freedom and its Limitations in the Oresteia’ The journal of Hellenic studies. 85 (1965) 42-55

J. Heath ‘Disentangling the beast: humans and other animals in Aeschylus’ Oresteia’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (1999) 17-47

Kitto, H.D.F. Form and meaning in drama : a study of six Greek plays and of Hamlet (ed. 2, London 1964) chs. 1-3

Lawrence, S.E. ‘Artemis in the Agamemnon’ The American Journal of Philology. 97 (1976) 97-110

Leahy, D.M. ‘The Rôle of Cassandra in the Oresteia of Aeschylus’ Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 52 (1969) 144-77

Leahy, D.M. ‘The Representation of the Trojan War in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon’ The American Journal of Philology. 95 (1974) 1-23

A. Lebeck ‘Imagery and action in the Oresteia’, in E. Segal (ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford 1983) 73-83 [an extract from A. Lebeck The Oresteia: a study in language and structure (Cambridge MA, 1971) 59-73]

H. Lloyd-Jones ‘The guilt of Agamemnon’ Classical Quarterly 12 (1962) 187-99, reprinted in E. Segal (ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford 1983) 57-72

H. Lloyd-Jones,"Artemis and Iphigenia," Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983) 87-102

C.W. Macleod ‘Politics and the Oresteia’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982) 124-44, reprinted in his Collected Papers (Oxford 1983) ch.3

R. Meridor ‘Aeschylus Agamemnon 944-57: why does Agamemnon give in?’ Classical Philology 82 (1987), 38-43

A.J. Podlecki The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy (1966)

J.J. Peradotto ‘Some patterns of nature imagery in the Oresteia’ American Journal of Philology 85 (1964) 378-9

J. J. Peradotto 'Cledonomancy in the Oresteia American Journal of Philology 90.1 (1969) 1-21

Y. Prins 'The Power of the Speech Act: Aeschylus' Furies and their Binding Song'  Arethusa,  24:2 (1991:Fall) 177-195 

T. G. Rosenmeyer, The Art of Aeschylus (Berkeley 1982).

A.M. van Erp Taalman Kip ‘The unity of the Oresteia’ in M.S. Silk (ed.) Tragedy and the Tragic (Oxford 1996) 119-138

O. Taplin The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (Oxford 1977) chs. 6-8

Vellacott, P. ‘Has Good Prevailed? A Further Study of the Oresteia’ Harvard studies in classical philology. 81 (1977) 113-22

Vellacott, P. The logic of tragedy : morals and integrity in Aeschylus' Oresteia (Durham NC 1984)

R.P. Winnington-Ingram ‘Clytaemnestra and the vote of Athena’ Journal of Hellenic Stiudies 68 (1948) 130-47, reprinted in E. Segal (ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford 1983) 84-103

R.P. Winnington-Ingram Studies in Aeschylus (Cambridge 1983) chs. 4-8

F.I. Zeitlin ‘The motif of the corrupted sacrifice in Aeschylus’ Oresteia ‘ Transactions of the American Philological Association 96 (1965) 463-508; 'Postscript' TAPA 97 (1966) 645-53 

F. I. Zeitlin 'The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the 'Oresteia' ' Arethusa, 11:1/2 (1978:Spring/Fall) p.149-184