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.

In Aeschylus's Oresteia, the story is begun with Agamemnon's return home, to find that his wife, Clytemnestra, had married her lover, Aegisthus.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The enduring popularity of Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy ( produced in 458 BC ) is evident in Euripides ' construction of the recognition scene between Orestes and Electra.

Another piece of evidence used to support an early date is the relationship between the character of Deianeira and that of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus ' Oresteia, first produced in 458.

In earlier known versions of this story, Deianeira is a rather masculine character, similar to that of Clytemnestra in Oresteia who purposely killed her husband Agamemnon, but in Women of Trachis Deianeira's character is much softer and more feminine and she is only inadvertently responsible for the death of her husband.

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.

The Flies is also a modern take on Aeschylus ’ trilogy, the Oresteia.

( 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 ).

Euripides was the youngest in a set of three great tragedians who were almost contemporaries: his first play was staged thirteen years after Sophocles's debut and only three years after Aeschylus's masterpiece, the Oresteia.

" 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.

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:

From Aeschylus, we still have seven tragedies, among which the only surviving series of three tragedies performed together, the so-called Oresteia.

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.

Though an Alexandrian catalogue of Aeschylean play titles designates the trilogy Hoi Prometheis (" the Prometheuses "), in modern scholarship the trilogy has been designated the Prometheia to mirror the title of Aeschylus ' only extant trilogy, the Oresteia.

Unlike the Oresteia, only one play from this trilogy — Prometheus Bound — survives.

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 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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

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

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

Melina Mercouri concentrated on her stage career for the following years, playing in the Greek productions of The Threepenny Opera and, for a second time, Sweet Bird of Youth, in addition to the ancient Greek tragedies Medea and Oresteia.