"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."--Robert Brustein, "The New Republic"

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."--Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation"

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."--"Times Education Supplement"

"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."--Warren D. Anderson, "American Oxonian"

"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."--"Commonweal"

"Grene is one of the great translators."--Conor Cruise O'Brien, "London Sunday Times"

"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."--Dudley Fitts, "New York Times Book Review"

《奥瑞斯提亚》是西方文化的奠基性作品，它不仅给予艺术家灵感，也同样启发政治思想家。

它是最复杂的诗歌戏剧，充满着精巧的诗行，洋溢着激昂的吟唱，还有强有力的戏剧行动和在人们内心留下深刻烙印的诸多人物形象。

自城邦文化之始，亦即民主与公共讨论之始，这部作品就在舞台上为我们提 出了一个核心问题：如何理解正义、复仇、暴力以及人们对彼此乃至社会的责任？

我用多年时间反思、教学这部作品，能使此剧的思想为又一批新的观众所了解，我对此感到由衷的欣慰。——西蒙·戈德希尔