The Oresteia

Aegisthus Aeschylus Agamem Agamemnon altar Apollo Areopagus Argos Artemis Athena Athenians avenge blessings blood bring Calchas Cassandra chorus Clytaem Clytaemnestra cries crime curse dark daughter dead death Delphi destiny Dionysos dream Earth Electra Eumenides fate father feast force Furies glory goddess gods grave Greece Greek grief guilt hand hear heart Helen herald Hermes Homer hope house of Atreus human husband Iliad Intro Iphigeneia justice kill king LEADER Libation Bearers light lives lord matricide Menelaus moral mother mourn murder never night Odyssey Olympian once Oresteia Orestes pain Peitho Pelops perhaps play praise prayer prophetic purges Pylades queen revenge rising rites ritual robes Saving Zeus seer serpent sing song spirit suffer tears tell terror Theogony Thyestes tion torch tragedy tragic trial trilogy triumph Trojan Troy turn vengeance victim victory vision woman women words yoke Zeus Zeus's