Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Oresteia (458 B.C.) Background: This is the only complete Greek tragic trilogy extant. Aeschylus won the prize with it. The individual plays are Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. They were originally followed by a satyr-play, Proteus, which has been lost. The first play deals with the murder of Agamemnon, the second with the vengeance of his son Orestes for that murder, and the third with the results of that vengeance. Several years elapse between the first and second plays, and several days between the second and third. The central character of t...
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