Your Daily Penguin! The Oresteia!

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  • @breoganf5599
    @breoganf5599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Words cannot describe how much good Steve is doing with these series of videos. Many of us, self-proclaimed readers, have never bothered to open books like the ones he is presenting. It is only his second book in "Your daily Penguin" and I have already learnt so much! I take a quick look at the size of that wall behind him… and for some odd reason I feel like I just won the lottery for what’s to come.

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very nice of you to say! Considering how long I've been talking about these books in my life, it strikes me as kind of strange that it took me this long to start talking about them one-by-one on BookTube!

  • @bitsoflit
    @bitsoflit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This series has me more excited about the classics than I have ever felt, so I hope we get all the way through the whole collection!

  • @melrose718
    @melrose718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A Penguin a day keeps the blues away! Love this series!

  • @slightlyallthetime
    @slightlyallthetime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm in this series for the long haul. Your insights are wonderful.

  • @Starscreamlive
    @Starscreamlive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember the first time I read Agamemnon and it's amazing ending, playing out like a Marvel film. I fell in love with Greek drama because of this trilogy.

  • @nathanfoung2347
    @nathanfoung2347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    oh yes, so good! It just dawned on me after this series a number of us are in danger of acquiring a colony of penguins! funny thing just happened when I played your video. My wife can recognise your voice now, she wants to keep an eye out on your videos so she can monitor my book purchaces. she choked on her drink when she heard you mentioned "duplicates".

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hah! Yes, I've learned that quite a few spouses out there in the world now recognize that my videos can lead to excessive book-buying!

  • @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
    @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think I am going to enjoy regular doses of Penguin Classics. Thank you Steve.
    I did get to see Agamemnon performed many years ago when I was at school. Reading A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes has prompted me to revisit Greek drama after forty years. I had honestly forgotten how gripping and complex these plays can be and have resolved to read more. If you have me back on Catullus and Ovid too I will be in trouble.

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think I can safely predict you will be in trouble! These are the books I've read the most, loved the most, traveled with the most, talked about the most, taught the most, and given away the most!

  • @gaildoughty6799
    @gaildoughty6799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got this as part of my gifts for Christmas.
    Now I can’t wait to read it.
    Thank you, Steve.

  • @HannahsBooks
    @HannahsBooks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wonderful video! Last year we saw a version of the Oresteia at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC. It wasn’t perfect but I am so glad we got to see it. I also really enjoyed Anne Carson’s mixed-playwright trilogy.

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think I read about that production! How long was it?

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Steve Donoghue Only a couple of hours. I would love to see a more traditional version sometime. One of my acquaintances teaches Greek and frequently puts on outdoor traditional performances of various plays with her students. And one of my son’s friends staged Antigone in the college football stadium!

  • @elainepereira7483
    @elainepereira7483 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is a brilliant way for us to experience the penguins! And it ensures months and months of videos to look forward to and learn from. You bring these books to life!! Thank you 😍

  • @wordswordseverywhere9113
    @wordswordseverywhere9113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loving this tour/series :)

  • @readingsomethinglately6808
    @readingsomethinglately6808 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this new series of videos. Thanks Steve!

  • @paulgriffin419
    @paulgriffin419 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm really enjoying the Daily Penguin. Well done Steve.

  • @acruelreadersthesis5868
    @acruelreadersthesis5868 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm so excited to keep watching this series!

  • @RichardFarley1976
    @RichardFarley1976 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow this series gets better and better thanks Steve 😉

  • @thuntz29
    @thuntz29 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m adding this one to my tbr! Thanks Steve! One thing I don’t like about black penguin classics is the paper quality, especially the big books. It feels so susceptible to ripping and I can be brutal with my books. I usually prefer Oxford classics editions.

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh my, you're SO right! I'm brutal with my books too, and some Penguins, particularly older ones, can be flimsy - unlike the Oxford trade paperbacks, which are certainly tougher.

  • @johncrwarner
    @johncrwarner 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was lucky enough to be friends with a woman whose husband was a retired philosophy professor who staged the Oresteia in his own translation at a local youth theatre - they specialised in doing classics in schools. So I have seen it live and also saw it on the BBC (in 1979) with Diana Rigg as Clymenestra - I don't remember the translation though or whether it is available on video.
    Tony Harrison (a poet) wrote "The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus" about the discovery and the existing extracts of the one of only two satyr plays - and that was a smash hit in London in the 1990s - Tony Harrison's V might well be of interest to you - it is poetry by a classical scholar who wrote in V about the economically oppressed North of England in the mid-1980s - it is fascinating to listen too and I think hearing him recite his poetry (available on TH-cam) helps

  • @florashouldbereading9045
    @florashouldbereading9045 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am ecstatic! This new series is my dream!

  • @richardsonreads573
    @richardsonreads573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a brilliant, heartfelt video. I wasn’t a fan of the daily Penguin idea. I thought it would take too long and I was too eager to eat them all. I stand corrected.

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks very much! The more I thought about it, the more I just couldn't bring myself to blast through ten or fifteen of these books in a single video -

  • @jamesholder13
    @jamesholder13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's been years since I read the Oresteia. . .

  • @theaelizabet
    @theaelizabet 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many years ago, as a theater major, I performed in our college production of The Oresteia and it was an amazing, all-consuming experience. I no longer have that script (or if I do it’s well-hidden in an attic box) and I don’t remember the translator. Now on my shelves I have the Lattimore translation from University of Chicago Press. I’ve read both Lattimore’s and Fagles’s translation of the Iliad and found that they both have something to recommend them, but I’d like to read the Fagles version of the Orestesia because I just don’t find that Lattimore works as well with theatrical text. Anyway, I’m here for the Daily Penguin!

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually PERFORMED in the Oresteia? Incredible!

  • @chrisbeveridge3066
    @chrisbeveridge3066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The names of 150 Greek authors of tragedy are known...only 3 are extant.
    Aeschylus who wrote 82 of which 7 survive.
    Sophocles who wrote 123 of which 7 exist.
    Euripides who wrote 92 of which 18-19 exist.
    These texts themselves are the results of untold recopyings which date from the 12-15 centuries therefore subject to possible distorted transcriptions.
    Papyrus Reed and Parchment (vellum) survived indefinitely only in Egypt due to it's unique climatic conditions also helped by Greek control of that country. The library of Alexandria ( Greek)housed 74-78 of euripides plays.The process of human elimination also played a part in what manuscripts survived.
    Bye the bye The Tower Beyond Tragedy by Robinson Jeffers is a must read for Orestia fans.
    All the best my fellow Americans!

  • @ramblingraconteur1616
    @ramblingraconteur1616 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    We had a “reading” of Agamemnon but not a full “production” in a Greek literature course I took in college. The professor brought in reconstructions of the Greek masks and played the role of Clytemnestra. It was magnificent.
    Steve, are you on the side of Aeschylus really believing that the out of the Furies becoming the Eumenides and presaging am Athenian jury is reverent rather than a final sarcastic shot from the author of Prometheus Bound?

  • @PersonalityWorship
    @PersonalityWorship 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you recommend the penguin editions of Lysistrata (Sommerstein) and Medea (Davie) or are there better alternatives?

  • @awizardintraining
    @awizardintraining 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about Sophocles Oedipal Cycle (Rex, Colonus, Antigone)? That's not considered a trilogy?

    • @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
      @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Although they are often grouped together they were actually written at different times and each originally had other plays making up their trilogy.

    • @wordswordseverywhere9113
      @wordswordseverywhere9113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Each of those plays actually comes from a different trilogy, but are usually placed together by modern editors.

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A CYCLE of plays, certainly, and fascinating to watch the same author returning to the same material, but not actually a trilogy conceived & written all at the same time!

    • @ramblingraconteur1616
      @ramblingraconteur1616 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Although Antigone is last within the universe Sophocles creates, it was the first composed by Sophocles and one of his earlier plays. Oedipus at Colonus was written as one of his final plays a generation later. It’s fascinating to see how his writing around the same characters changes over the course of his authorial lifetime.

  • @elenamakridina8196
    @elenamakridina8196 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was right refusing to set any bookish goals and to make any bookish resolutions. With these videos you would derail them all on a daily basis:)