Who Is Aeschylus Oresteia?
Oresteia, Trilogy of Tragic Dramas by the Ancient Greek Dramatist Aeschylus, First Performed in 458 Bce. .. . the Oresteia Tells the Story of the House of...
Oresteia, trilogy of tragic dramas by the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus, first performed in 458 bce. ... The Oresteia tells the story of the house of Atreus. The first play, Agamemnon, portrays the victorious return of that king from the Trojan War and his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus.
What is the moral of The Oresteia?
The moral applicable to Greek citizens was that they shouldn't be like Orestes, Clytemnestra and Electra and they should not take justice into their own hands but instead they should solve their conflicts through law and trials.
What is Aeschylus most famous for?
Known as 'the father of tragedy', the playwright wrote up to 90 plays, winning with half of them at the great Athenian festivals of Greek drama. Perhaps his most famous work is Prometheus Bound which tells the myth of the Titan punished by Zeus for giving humanity the gift of fire.
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