Libation Bearers – Aeschylus – Summary
Libation Bearers: Orestes Who wrote the Libation Bearers? This is the second of a cycle of three plays written by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. In Greek, the play is the [...]
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Eumenides – Aeschylus – Summary
Orestes kills Clytemnestra Third in a trilogy The Eumenides is the third of a cycle of three plays written by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. Who was Aeschylus? Agamemnon Curse of [...]
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Agamemnon – a play by Aeschylus
Athens, about 460 BC, by the Dokimasia Painter (from left to right, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus, Agamemnon, Electra, and Cassandra). Now in the MFA, Boston A play by Aeschylus The Agamemnon is [...]
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Who was Aeschylus? Athenian playwright
Aeschylus's plays were performed in the Theater of Dionysos here on the Acropolis below the Parthenon in Athens Biography of Aeschylus Aeschylus (ESS-kill-us) is the earliest playwright in any language [...]
