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The ''Achilleis'' (after the Ancient Greek , ''Achillēis'', ) is a lost trilogy by the Athenian dramatist Aeschylus. The three plays that make up the ''Achilleis'' exist today only in fragments, but aspects of their overall content can be reconstructed with reasonable certainty. Like the ''Oresteia'' which forms "a narratively connected unit with a continuous plot,"〔Gantz (1980) 133.〕 the trilogy had a unified focus, presumably treating the story of Achilles at Troy in a version comparable to plot of the latter two-thirds of the ''Iliad''.〔Gantz (1980) 145.〕 In the ''Myrmidons'' (, ''Myrmidónes''), Achilles' refusal to fight after his quarrel with Agamemnon led to the death of Patroclus. The title of the play traditionally placed second in the trilogy is the ''Nereids'' (, ''Nēreídes''). The chorus was thus a group of Nereids, and the subject of the play involved Achilles and his Nereid mother Thetis, probably her mourning his imminent death and the acquisition of his new arms. In the ''Phrygians'' (, ''Phrýges'') or ''Ransom of Hector'' (Ἕκτορος λύτρα, ''Héktoros lútra''), Priam and a chorus of Phrygians sought to retrieve Hector's body from the still wroth Achilles.〔This summary of the most common reconstruction of the trilogy is based upon West (2000) 340–42, though he does not agree with the traditional arrangement.〕 Neither the trilogy's title ''Achilleis''〔This title, a feminine adjective formed from Achilles' name, is a modern construct that has been adopted based upon the naming habits of antiquity. Like ''Oresteia'' (cf. Aristophanes, ''Frogs'' 1124 with scholia), ''Achilleis'' is meant to be construed with a suppressed feminine noun: either trilogy (, ''trilogía'') or tetralogy (, ''tetralogía''), if referring to the three known plays and the unknown satyr play that would have followed. Cf. Gantz (1979) 291–93 and (1980) 133–34.〕 nor the grouping of the plays is explicitly attested from antiquity, but the existence of a unified trilogy with Achilles as its focus has long been accepted by modern scholars.〔(Mikelachis (2002) 22 with n. 1 ). Welcker (1824) 310 was the first to propose both the title and the grouping; cf. Gantz (1979) 289.〕 In his commentary on the ''Choephori'', Garvie states that it is "highly likely that Aeschylus often, though not always (of the surviving plays ''Persae'' is an almost certain exception) composed trilogies consisting of tragedies connected in their subject matter."〔Garvie (1986) xxvi.〕 In addition to the ''Oresteia'' (to which the ''Choephori'' belongs), the ''Seven Against Thebes'' and ''Suppliants'' formed part of connected trilogies, as did the lost plays that make up the ''Lycurgeia''.〔Gantz (1980) 136–42.〕 The satyr plays that accompanied these examples had plots related to those of the tragedies, and it has been suggested that the ''Achilleis'' might also have been followed by a comedic play related to its dramatic content, but there is no evidence as to what the subject of this satyr play might have been.〔Gantz (1980) 146.〕 Since the ''Achilleis'' survives in fragments, its text is comparatively more fluid than that of ancient texts with medieval manuscript traditions. During the first half of the 20th century papyrus fragments of numerous lost Aeschylean plays, including the ''Myrmidons'', were discovered that added much material to, and greatly altered the modern conception of, the dramatist's corpus. Given this fluidity, it is especially important to consult the most current critical edition or translations of the text, since earlier editions will likely not reflect the advances of the past century. In the case of the fragments of Aeschylus, the edition of record is the third volume of ''Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta'' edited by Stefan Radt (1985). While it is now customary to refer to the text and numeration of Radt, the majority of the fragments of the ''Achilleis'' can also be found in Mette's 1959 edition. For example, fr. 140 Radt and 232 Mette refer to the same three-word fragment of the ''Myrmidons'', uttered (in Mette's opinion) by Achilles: "Arms! I want arms!" (, ''hóplōn hóplōn deî''). Sommerstein's Loeb is the most current English translation and follows the numeration of Radt, as does this article. ==The trilogy== Given Aeschylus' tendency to write connected trilogies, three plays attested in the catalogue of his work have been supposed to constitute the ''Achilleis'': ''Myrmidons'', ''Nereids'' and ''Phrygians'' (alternately titled ''The Ransoming of Hector''). Despite the paucity of surviving text, the ''Myrmidons'' has achieved some measure of fame, because of Aristophanes' satire of it at ''Frogs'' 911–13 in which Euripedes mocks Aeschylus' stagecraft:
This play, along with the also lost ''Niobe'', are two famous examples cited in antiquity of the often-discussed theme of the "Aeschylean silence". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Achilleis (trilogy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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