An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides

by Anne Carson

“Every poem is a misinterpretation of a parent poem,” says Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Bloom doesn’t quite believe in homage.

Yeah, well, he's an asshole, so.