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The Oresteia
Aeschylus
Agamemnon comes home and is murdered, his son kills his mother for it, and the Furies pursue him until Athena convenes a jury and the cycle stops. The only complete Greek tragic trilogy that survives.
Why you should read this
The only complete trilogy of Greek tragedies to survive intact, the Oresteia traces a shift from cycles of private vengeance to public legal judgment across its three plays. It is a foundational text for the history of Western drama as well as for the history of law.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 458 BCE
- Themes
- Greek TragedyLiterature
