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Aeschylus’ Agamemnon opens with a watchman anxiously awaiting King Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War. As Agamemnon arrives home in triumph, he is greeted by his wife, Clytemnestra, who feigns loyalty but harbors a deadly secret: she has plotted his murder in revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, which Agamemnon made to secure favorable winds for the Greek fleet. Clytemnestra’s manipulation and cunning are revealed as the plot unfolds, and the play ends with the ominous foreshadowing of further retribution, setting the stage for the tragedies to come in the rest of the ...
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The Eumenides
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In Aeschylus’ The Eumenides, the final play of the Oresteia trilogy, Orestes is tormented by the Furies after avenging his father, Agamemnon, by killing his mother, Clytemnestra. Seeking refuge at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, he is guided to Athens, where he faces trial for his actions. The goddess Athena intervenes, establishing a court to judge Orestes, symbolizing the shift in Greece from personal vendetta to a structured legal...
The Libation Bearers
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In Aeschylus’ The Libation Bearers, the second play of his Oresteia trilogy, the story continues the cycle of vengeance that began with the murder of Agamemnon. The play opens with Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, returning to Argos to avenge his father’s death. Commanded by Apollo, Orestes and his sister Electra plot to kill Agamemnon’s murderers—their mother Clytemnestra and her lover...
