Aeschylus’s Agamemnon is the first tragedy in a tetralogy that includes the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides, and the misplaced satyr play Proteus. The performs won first prize at the tragic opposition at Athens in 458 b.C.E. The three performs comprising the tragic trilogy, known as the Oresteia after the man or woman Orestes, are the handiest such trilogy still extant. This past due work by Aeschylus is thematically complex, densely layered in its figurative language and interconnected imagery, and dramatically powerful.
The subject is the stricken “residence of Atreus,” i.E., the family of the ruling circle of relatives of Argus that includes Atreus, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. This own family has a dark mythological records. Tantalus, the grandfather of Agamemnon, reportedly att
