Definitions for Oresteia

Oresteia O·res·te·ia

Spelling: [awr-e-stee-uh, ohr-]
IPA: /ˌɔr ɛˈsti ə, ˌoʊr-/

Oresteia is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in Oresteia (aeeiorst).

Definitions for Oresteia

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  1. a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.

Examples for Oresteia

The Oresteia is sufficient to prove that we gain no insight into his method as an artist if we consider only single plays.

An awe-inspiring tale of destiny; out of it Æschylus will develop his great tragedy, the Oresteia.

Perhaps this is the reason why the Oresteia is the only extant trilogy.

His fate and that of his house is the subject of Æschylus' trilogy "Oresteia."

In the trilogy of the Oresteia he is concerned with heroes; in the Prometheus, with gods, Titans, and demigods.

We find it expressed typically, as still ideal and almost superhuman, in the Oresteia.

In the Oresteia Æschylus has plucked the last fruit upon the Upas-tree of crime which flourished in the palace of Mycenæ.

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