The Oresteia
Agamemnon comes home from Troy to a wife who has spent ten years nursing a grievance over a daughter sacrificed for fair winds. What follows passes down the house of Atreus to a son caught between the duty to avenge and the Furies who hunt avengers. A cycle of blood-vengeance transmuted, at last, into the rule of law.
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- ↓ Julius Caesar
- ↓ Mourning Becomes Electra
- ↓ Thyestes
- ↓ Electra
- ↓ The Frogs
- ↓ Electra (Euripides)
- ↓ Iphigenia among the Taurians
- ↓ Orestes
- ↓ Iphigenia at Aulis
- ↓ The Flies
- ↓ The Spirit Level
- ↓ Watership Down
- ↓ Cassandra
- ↓ Leda and the Swan
- ↓ Agamemnon
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