Orestes

von Voltaire

54 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Orestes was produced in 1750 an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama:"We should not I acknowledge endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries.