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Aeschylus — The Oresteia

Study guide to Aeschylus's Oresteia (458 BCE), the only complete Greek tragic trilogy to survive: Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes kills her in turn, and the cycle of revenge ends in a court of law founded by Athena.

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