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.

He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy and his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.

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

The Oresteia is the only surviving trilogy of these ancient Greek plays, originally performed at the festival in Athens in 458 BC.

* 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.

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.

In doing so, he essentially invented " drama ": his Oresteia trilogy of plays is seen as his crowning achievement.

Much like his Oresteia, this trilogy would have detailed the tribulations of a House over three successive generations.

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

Even at that, her powers had come to her via the Fury Tisiphone, and the Furies, under the euphemism, " the Kindly Ones " ( a translation of " Eumenides ", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy ), are major characters in the series.

This story is the major plot line of Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia.

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.

In doing so, he essentially invented " drama ": his Oresteia trilogy of plays is seen as his crowning achievement.

Mourning Becomes Electra is divided into three plays with themes corresponding to The Oresteia trilogy by 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 term " Oresteia " originally probably referred to all four plays, but today is generally used to designate only the surviving trilogy.

" The individual plays probably did not originally have titles of their own " The only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays, the Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.

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.

This objection prompted the theory of a Zeus who ( like the Furies in the Oresteia ) " evolves " in the course of the trilogy.

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.

* 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 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.

" In addition to the Oresteia ( to which the Choephori belongs ), the Seven Against Thebes and Suppliants formed part of connected trilogies, as did the lost plays that make up the Lycurgeia.

Early on, the subject matter of the four plays was often linked, with the three tragedies forming a trilogy, such as the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

( This last section, known as the Oresteia, is narrated in Odyssey books 3 and 4 by Nestor and Menelaos ; and it was later also the basis for Aeschylus ' trilogy of tragic plays, the Oresteia ).

Atwood holds that, with the rise of Ancient Greece, and especially the installation of the court system detailed in Aeschylus's Oresteia, this deity has been replaced by a more thorough conception of debt.

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.

In one of the prequel novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Caladan, during the reign of Duke Paulus Atreides.

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

* Proteus ( play ), a satyr play by Aeschylus, part of the Oresteia

The first is the Libation Bearers in the Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus ( 458 BC ).

He was selected by Terence Gray to appear in the opening production in November 1926 at the Festival Theatre, taking the part of Orestes in two parts of the sensational production of the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

* Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1931 ) by Eugene O ' Neill: A retelling of Aeschylus ' The Oresteia, set in the post-American Civil War South.

The subject of the Metal Opera was Oresteia and the Greek myths related by Aeschylus, very familiar to David DeFeis, because of his father's theaterical background.

According to some scholars, Deianeira's character in Women of Trachis is intended as a commentary on Aeschylus ' treatment of Clytemnestra, and if this is the case this play was most likely produced reasonably soon after Oresteia, although it is also possible that such commentary was triggered by a later revival of Aeschylus ' trilogy.

He focuses most on the second play in the Oresteia trilogy, only referencing the first play, Agamemnon, with the mention of Agamemnon ’ s death by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

From 1997 till 2007, Walker served as Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, a company for which he has directed many productions including his own Finnegans Wake: a dream play ( based on the novel by James Joyce ), which played in both Kingston and Toronto in 2001, and Aeschylus ’ s The Oresteia, which was performed with Proteus, a satyr play Walker wrote himself to replace the one that had originally followed the trilogy but had been lost since the 5th century BCE.

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

* Aeschylus, " Oresteia " Trans.

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.

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

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

* Orestes in Aeschylus ' Oresteia ( 458 BC ).

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