- Agamemnon (Greek mythology), Drama, Electra (Greek mythology), Greek drama
The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. - Publisher.
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About the book
- Author
- Aeschylus
- First published
- 1845
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, Minnesota University Press in association with the Minnesota Theatre Company, Vivliopoleion tes "Hestias," I.D. Kollarou
- Editions
- 133
- Language
- lat, Italian, grc, ice
- ISBN
- 9781400041923
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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
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