Hello and welcome to this next episode of Chronicles, where I'm going to be talking about

Agamemnon, the first play of Isculas's Arrestia.

And I thought for some ancient Greek texts, what better thing to do than bring in the Greek,

the Stelios himself?

Thank you very much. Thanks, Lucas. My first time in Chronicles.

Yeah, well, it's great to have you here for it. So we're quite lucky with the

rest of you. We were saying this before we're coming on, that it's actually the only surviving

trilogy of plays from the Greek world, right? Even though we have, honestly, a generous amount of

ancient Greek theatre that has survived. Of course, what has survived down the ages is, of course, a generous amount of ancient Greek theatre that has survived.

Of course, what has survived down the ages is, of course, a very small fraction of what once existed.

For example, with Eusculis, it's believed that he wrote between 70 and about 80 plays,

and of course we have seven of them in the whole.

But one of them happens to be this trilogy from the Arrestia,

obviously talking about mainly focusing around Arrestes,

the great Greek hero Arrestes.

And although he doesn't really feature in this first one

that we were going to talk about

but I thought it's for the only surviving Greek trilogy it deserved the necessary depth

and so over however long it takes we'll just go over them individually until we've done it

the amount of what has been lost is staggering. So, for instance,

when it comes to epic poetry, we think we have Homer's Iliad, The Odyssey, and also Hesiod, Theogony

and Works and Days. But there were many more epics.

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