The Oresteia
By Aeschylus (translated by E. D. A. Morshead)
Cover: Orestes Pursued by the Furies (1862), oil on canvas by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1905)
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Aeschylus's trilogy follows the house of Atreus: Clytemnestra murders her husband Agamemnon on his return from Troy, her son Orestes kills her in revenge, and the Furies pursue him until Athena sets up a court to try him. The three plays are the book's three chapters. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.