![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a grand style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus’ concerns with the destiny and fate of individuals as well as the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. After being purified by Apollo, he makes his way to Athens and is there tried (and acquitted) at the court of Areopagus. In The Furies, Orestes flees to Delphi, pursued by the divine avengers (Erinyes) of his mother. In The Libation-Bearers, Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, avenges his father by murdering his mother. 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. ![]() Among them is this classic trilogy dealing with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote 90 plays, but only seven have survived complete. ![]()
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