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- The Oresteia (Ancient Gr****: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Gr**** tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon...
- He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy. His Oresteia is the only extant ancient example. At least one of his plays was influenced...
- king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and...
- Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus is a 1981 oil-on-canvas triptych painting by Francis Bacon. It is one of 28 large triptych paintings by...
- Oresteia (Орестея in Cyrillic) is an opera in three parts, eight tableaux, with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887–1894. The composer titled...
- a vengeful soul in The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. She plans out an attack with her brother to kill their mother...
- Doctor, and his modern adaptations of classic texts, including versions of Oresteia, Mary Stuart, and 1984, devised with Duncan Macmillan. Born in Stockton-on-Tees...
- Reflections of the Oresteia in the arts and po****r culture show the influence of the classic trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus. Several composers have...
- Homer at the end of the 8th century BC, and the second from Aeschylus's Oresteia, written in the 5th century BC. Aegisthus also features heavily in the...
- very similar line can be found in the Agamemnon, the first play of the Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Gr**** tragedian and playwright Aeschylus. The line...