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Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish, translators, The Serpent Son: Aeschylus: Oresteia, Cambridge University Press 1979

A new translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia, produced on BBC2 in 1979 by Richard Broke and directed by Bill Hays. Cast is in the sidebar opposite.

28 Nov 1981 first performance of Tony Harrison's unrelated adaptation of the Oresteia at the National Theatre, London.

A vintage Radio Times cover featuring Diana Rigg as Clytemnestra in a dramatic costume with snake motifs and yellow eye makeup

Clytemnestra: Diana Rigg
Athena: Claire Bloom
Cassandra: Helen Mirren
Choral Leader: Billie Whitelaw
Cilissa, the nurse: Dame Flora Robson
Leader of the Furies: Sian Phillips
Agamemnon: Denis Quilley
Leader of Old Men: Alfred Burke
Orestes: Anton Lester
Electra: Maureen O'Brien
Apollo: John Nolan

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.