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Oresteia

The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).

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Genre
Tragedy
Original language
Greek
Written by
Aeschylus

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Agamemnon

The Libation Bearers

The Eumenides

Proteus

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Relation to the curse of the House of Atreus

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Oresteia

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Oresteia

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related to Chronology of adaptations · 57
Oresteia → Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Agamemnon, Agamemnon's Return, American, Andrew Watkins, Anne Carson's An Oresteia, April, Arnaud Churin, ASL, Belt Up Theatre Company, British, Canadian, Composer Felix Werder, Composer Iannis Xenakis, Composer Sergei Taneyev, COVID-19 Pandemic, DC, Dominic Allen, Electra And Her Shadow, Ellen McLaughlin
related to Mother-right and father-right · 31
Oresteia → According, Agamemnon, Ancient Greece's, Apollo, Athena, Bachofen, Bachofen's, Beauvoir, Clytemnestra, Das Mutterrecht, Engels, Family, Feminist Simone, For, Furies, Greek, In The Origin, Instead, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Kate Millett
related to Bibliography · 30
Oresteia → Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Agency, Barbara, Bloomsbury Academic, Christopher, Chronos, Collard, Duckworth, Duckworth Companions, Goward, Greek, Hellenic Studies, Himmelhoch, Introduction, ISBN, JSTOR, Leah, Lexington Press, London
related to External links · 28
Oresteia → Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Album, BBC, BBC Radio, British, Choephori, Cranes, Electre, English, Eumenides, Greek Wikisource, In Our Time, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies, Jonathan Vandenberg, La Tragedie, LibriVoxSee, MacMillan Films, Oreste, Standard EbooksAgamemnon
related to Matricide and femininity · 25
Oresteia → Amber Jacobs, Antigone, Athena's, Athene, Athene-Antigone Complex, Dana Tor, Doris Bernstein, Electra, Electra's, Freudian, Jungian, Lacan, Many, Melanie Klein, Oedipus, Once, Orestes, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung, Ronald Britton's, Serena Heller
related to Justice through retaliation · 24
Oresteia → Aegisthus, Agamemnon, Argos, Athena, Clytemnestra, Clytemnestra's, Consequently, Electra, Even, Furies, However, In Agamemnon, Iphigenia, Libation Bearers, Orestes, Pylades, Retaliation, She, The, The Eumenides
related to Proteus · 23
Oresteia → Aegisthus, Agam, Agamemnon, Agamemnon's, Ajax, Athenaeus, Book IV, Egypt, Egyptian Proteus, Homer, Homer's Odyssey, It, Lesser, Menelaus, Odysseus, Old Man, Pharos, Proteus, Prōteus, Sea
related to The Eumenides · 23
Oresteia → After, Apollo, Areopagus, Athena, Athenian, Athens, Clytemnestra's, Eumenides, Eumenídes, Furies, Gracious Ones, He, Here Orestes, Hermes, In, Orestes, Seeing, She, The, The Eumenides
related to The Libation Bearers · 21
Oresteia → Aegisthus, Aeschylus' Oresteia, Agamemnon, Agamemnon's, Apollo, Apollo's, Argos, Chorus, Choēphóroi, Clytemnestra, Clytemnestra's, Consequently, Electra, Furies, He, In The Libation Bearers, Orestes, Pylades, Shortly, Unrecognized
related to Agamemnon · 18
Oresteia → Aegisthus, After, Agamemnon, Agamémnōn, Clytemnestra, Greece, Greek, He, Iphigenia, It, King, Mycenae, Queen Clytemnestra, She, The, Trojan War, Troy, Waiting

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agamemnon orestes clytemnestra eumenides trilogy furies aeschylus athena play electra greek revenge aegisthus atreus chorus theatre house libation murder proteus

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OresteiaOriginal languageGreek1.00infobox
OresteiaWritten byAeschylus1.00infobox
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Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonAgamémnōn0.60section
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Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonKing0.60section
Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonMycenae0.60section
Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonTrojan War0.60section
Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonAfter0.60section
Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonTroy0.60section
Oresteiarelated to AgamemnonGreece0.60section

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