The Oresteia of Aeschylus:, Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus:, Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides
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eng
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fiction
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus:
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dictionaries
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Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides
Summary
Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and eleven other judges chosen by her from the Athenian citizenry at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens later held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes's killing of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him guilty of the crime of murder
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Oresteia
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- Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- Drama
- Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Translations into English
- Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae -- Drama
- Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- Drama
- Erinyes (Greek mythology) -- Drama
- Electronic books
- Electra, (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama
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- Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- Drama
- Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Translations into English
- Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae -- Drama
- Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- Drama
- Erinyes (Greek mythology) -- Drama
- Electronic books
- Electra, (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama
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