The Oresteia (In Our Time)
458 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ‘Oresteia’, the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus. The composer Richard Wagner recalled the visceral sensations of reading Aeschylus' great trilogy for the first time. "I could see the Oresteia with my mind's eye ...
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 458 BCE
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)