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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenidesby Aeschylus
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneias mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electras encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years.
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