This Norton Critical Edition includes: Oliver Taplin’s new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E.Greek tragedy—a trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argos—with explanatory annotations by the editors, ancient backgrounds and responses from Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Euripides and Sophocles, fourteen wide-ranging critical essays on the Oresteia, from G.W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche to Oliver Taplin and Peter Wilson, a Glossary of Technical Terms and Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.