Oresteia

So I want to finish reading the entire Oresteia (which I started in high school). Can anyone recommend me a good translation? I live in NYC so I'm thinking of just picking this up http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/profile/?isbn=09780140443332

Thanks in advance!

>>1
Whats "Oresteia" Does it have anything to do with paederastia?

Personally, I'd avoid Fagles' translations - I've found him close to neither the letter nor the spirit of the Greek in Homer, and have no reason to think his tragedy better.  But some people seem to have a higher opinion of him.

Personally, if I had to choose just one version to read, it would be the versions collected in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (translator), Aeschylus: Oresteia (London : Duckworth 1982).  In the US, these translations were originally published by Prentice Hall in 1970, but the current edition is from the University of California Press, and happens to be on sale from them if you're ordering within the US and use the discount code on the UC Press blog (http://ucpress.typepad.com/ucpresslog/2009/09/bigsale.html):

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1437.php

Another well regarded translation of the whole trilogy is that of Richmond Lattimore in the Chicago series:

Richmond Lattimore (translator), Aeschylus I:  Oresteia (Chcago and London : U. of Chicago Press 1953) ISBN 9780226307787

Also worth considering:

Christopher Collard (translator), Aeschylus:  Oresteia (Oxford and New York : Oxford UP 2003, 2008) ISBN 9780192832818 / 9780199537815

Why bother reading it if you're not going to read it in Greek?

People who read translations are pussies.

>>6
People who know ancient languages are heretics!

Even if one can read Greek, translation is a form of commentary, and worthwhile if done by somebody who's spent a lot of time with and knows what they're doing.