contents

Preface

I. Agamemnon

Notes

II . Choephori

Notes

III . Eumenides

Notes

Afterword

a. Origins of Greek Theatre

b. Greek Theatre

c. Innovations of Aeschylus, Father of Tragedy

d. Who Was Aeschylus?

e. Translation

f. The Original Text of the Oresteia

g. Agamemnon

h. Choephori

i. Eumenides

j. Note on the Chorus

Maps Clytemnestra’s Chain of Beacon Fires

Place Names

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