He who learns must suffer.Before setting out for the Trojan War; King Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Many years later; when Agamemnon returns to his palace; his adulterous Queen Clytemnestra takes her revenge by brutally murdering him and installing her lover on the throne. How will the gods judge Orestes; their estranged son; who must avenge his fathers death by murdering his mother?The curse of the House of Atreus; passing from generation to generation; is one of the great myths of Western literature. In the hands of Aeschylus; the story enacts the final victory of reason and justice over superstition and barbarity.The original trilogy; comprising Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers and Eumenides; is distilled into one thrilling three-act play in this magnificent new translation by award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A valuable work for war historiansBy Saskia RaevouriAustralian George Hubert Wilkins (or Sir Hubert Wilkins. as he was later known). was one of the twentieth centurys most multifaceted yet underrated heroes. Before he gained international renown in the late 1920s for his pioneering flights in the Arctic. he had traveled the world as engineer. photographer. cinematographer. reporter. war correspondent. geographer. balloonist. polar explorer. secret agent. and naturalist. Because many documents relating to his life were missing until recently. we have only had sketchy and incomplete knowledge of the actual role Wilkins played in many of his missions.It is Wilkins largely forgotten role as a World War I photographer. assigned to cover the Anzacs in battle as a member of the Australian War History Team. that author Jeff Maynard has uncovered important primary documents that set the record straight. In 2014 Maynard was granted access to 15 boxes of Wilkins correspondence and other memorabilia held in a barn in Michigan. USA. by a Wilkins heir after a decades-earlier ownership dispute. (The material has since joined the bulk of Wilkins papers at Ohio State University.) Here Maynard discovered detailed letters from Wilkins to his mother from the Western Front as well as Wilkins personal copy of Volume XII of "The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918" in which he had initialed the photos he took -- images heretofore credited to an "unknown official war photographer."In this book Maynard captures the spirit of the daring George Wilkins who. armed only with a camera. ventured into the front lines to get the most accurate shots. assisting the troops in battle and earning two Military Crosses in the process. Maynards painstaking research. matching and identifying battle scenes based on first-person accounts with the numbered photographs. has resulted in a valuable work for war historians as well as for those studying of the life of Sir George Hubert Wilkins.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Sir Hubert WilkinsBy RaedwulfVery interesting book about an incredible and very complex man. Clearly well researched and very well written.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Account of an Extraordinary LifeBy Lynette McClenaghanIn the proliferation of books about the Great War. the role of the camera and photographers is merely accepted as a given ndash; men were there and photographs. This book examines the crucial role of George Wilkins as a photographer. not only in terms of the photographic record. but of the significance of those photographs in helping to create a sense of national identity in Australia. The book provides links and contextualizing comments to the online record of the images.The author interweaves this important historical and technological discussion with the biographical account of George Wilkins. He was an extraordinary man and his character emerges clearly and strongly throughout. His bravery and determination to record the Australian soldiersrsquo; contribution to the war. lead to his being involved at the forefront of the fighting and the book is filled with stories of his escapades and exploits. This is heart in the mouth adventure. all the more moving because it was real.Wilkinsrsquo; story is in itself fascinating. but the way in which the book examines the role of war photographer was for me. its most important element. To give just one example: Australiarsquo;s war correspondent and historian Charles Bean insisted on photographs which truthfully recorded events; photographer Frank Hurley wanted to create composites of more than one photograph to make the images more artistic. Decades before photoshopping here is a debate over veracity in creating images and the purposes to which those images are put.This book provides action and adventure but also important ideas such as national identity. censorship. class divisions and historical research. A very rewarding read.
