![]() ![]() ![]() (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)ĪGAMEMNON, king of Mycenae, read by StephenCĪEGISTHUS, cousin to Agamemnon, read by mb ![]() Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences, instigates the action of these poetic tragedies. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. ![]()
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