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The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies

The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies

Aeschylus

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ISBN10: 0486292428
ISBN13: 9780486292427
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Sep 24 1996
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote 90 plays, but only seven have survived complete. Among them is this classic trilogy dealing with the bloody history of the House of Atreus.
In Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia before the start of the Trojan War. In The Libation-Bearers, Orestes, Agamemnon's son, avenges his father by murdering his mother. In The Furies, Orestes flees to Delphi, pursued by the divine avengers (Erinyes) of his mother. After being purified by Apollo, he makes his way to Athens and is there tried (and acquitted) at the court of Areopagus.

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