The scene is the Argive hills overlooking to
the left the street to Argus and to the right the
passes to Sparta. A farmer stands earlier than a cot-
tage at middle degree and speaks approximately the latest
records of Argos: Agamemnon’s conflict in Troy,
his effective return, then his murder on the
arms of his spouse’s lover, Aegisthus. In addition,
Agamemnon’s son, Orestes, become compelled to escape to
save himself from Aegisthus, and Agamemnon’s
daughter Electra became for decades stored from
a appropriate marriage until, sooner or later, she changed into pressured
to marry him, a low-born farmer. Aegisthus
had feared that Electra may have children
of noble birth, strong enough to avenge their
grandfather’s death. The farmer has not compelled
Electra to cons
