Robert Fagles · 1975
Fagles's Oresteia flows — understandable and dramatic, the recommended way in for a first reader, with his own substantial introduction. The trilogy's terror and strangeness come through. This is where I'd start.
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Richmond Lattimore · 1953
Richmond Lattimore stays very close to Aeschylus's dense, knotty Greek. Admirers prize the fidelity; others find the English stiff and hard to scan. The choice if you want the shape of the original over smoothness.
Oliver Taplin · 2018
Oliver Taplin's 2018 version reads like a working stage-script — fast, urgent, built to be spoken. The freshest option if you want the plays as living theater rather than a monument.
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E. D. A. Morshead · 1881
E. D. A. Morshead's 19th-century translation is public domain and free. Grand and archaic; fine for sampling, but well behind the modern versions for a first read.
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