In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous tragedies, ancient and modern, the most famous being the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

The institution of trial by jury was ritually depicted by Aeschylus in the Eumenides, the third and final play of his Oresteia trilogy.

* 458 BC: Greek playwright Aeschylus completes the Oresteia, a trilogy that tells the story of a family blood feud.

Only one complete trilogy of tragedies has survived, the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

A prime example of the use of the ekkyklêma is after the murder of Agamemnon in the first play of Aeschylus ' Oresteia, when the king's butchered body is wheeled out in a grand display for all to see.

In his essay " Hegel's Theory of Tragedy ," A. C. Bradley first introduced the English-speaking world to Hegel's theory, which Bradley called the " tragic collision ", and contrasted against the Aristotelian notions of the " tragic hero " and his or her " hamartia " in subsequent analyses of the Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy and of Sophocles ' Antigone.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

* The Athenian playwright Aeschylus completes his trilogy The Oresteia ( which comprise Agamemnon, Choephoroi ( The Libation Bearers ) and The Eumenides ).

* The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus ' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia

* The Oresteia, a trilogy of plays by Aeschylus

Many of his paintings of this period contrast barbaric scenes of violence with those of civilized passivity, with imagery drawn primarily from Aeschylus ’ Oresteia trilogy.

Mourning Becomes Electra is divided into three plays with themes corresponding to The Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus.

* 1986 – 88: Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephorae, Eumenides ( Aeschylus )

The Oresteia () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.

* The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Tony Harrison, directed by Peter Hall ( 1981 )

Three of the world's greatest dramatists were Aeschylus, author of the Oresteia trilogy ; Sophocles, author of the Theban plays ; and Euripides, author of Medea, The Trojan Women, and The Bacchae.

Aeschylus introduced the ideas of dialogue and interacting characters to playwriting and in doing so, he effectively invented " drama ": his Oresteia trilogy of plays is judged his crowning achievement.

* Orestes in Aeschylus ' Oresteia ( 458 BC ).

Perhaps the most powerful impression any narrative text has ever left on me, though, is that inscribed by Aeschylus in Agamemnon, the first play of the Oresteia trilogy.

Sheppard also cites Aeschylus during the prologue debate, when the poet quotes from The Oresteia:

* Orestes, the character in Aeschylus ' trilogy of tragedies, Oresteia

By Aeschylus are known titles of 79 works ( out of about ninety works ), between tragedy and satyr plays, 7 of these have survived, including the only complete trilogy has come down from antiquity, the ' Oresteia, and some papyrus fragments:

The sense of relationship overreaches the historical truth that Shakespeare may have known next to nothing of the actual works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

We do not deny originality to the Agamemnon because Aeschylus found the tales of the house of Atreus among the folk lore of the Greeks.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BC – c. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

So important was the war to Aeschylus and the Greeks that, upon his death, around 456 BC, his epitaph commemorated his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon rather than his success as a playwright.

There are no reliable sources for the life of Aeschylus.

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

In 510 BC, Cleomenes I ( Aeschylus was 15 at the time ) expelled the sons of Peisistratus from Athens, and Cleisthenes came to power.

In the last decade of the 6th century, Aeschylus and his family were living in the deme of Eleusis.

In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against Darius I's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon.

In 480, Aeschylus was called into military service again, this time against Xerxes I's invading forces at the Battle of Salamis, and perhaps, too, at the Battle of Plataea in 479.

Aeschylus was one of many Greeks who had been initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a cult to Demeter based in his hometown of Eleusis.

Nevertheless, according to Aristotle some thought that Aeschylus had revealed some of the cult's secrets on stage.

Other sources claim that an angry mob tried to kill Aeschylus on the spot, but he fled the scene.

Heracleides of Pontus asserts that the crowd watching the play tried to stone Aeschylus.

He was acquitted, with the jury sympathetic to the wounds that Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus suffered at Marathon.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

By 473 BC, after the death of Phrynichus, one of his chief rivals, Aeschylus was the yearly favorite in the Dionysia, winning first prize in nearly every competition.

In 472 BC, Aeschylus staged the production that included the Persians, with Pericles serving as choregos.