The scene is the Argive hills overlooking to
the left the street to Argus and to the proper the
passes to Sparta. A farmer stands earlier than a cot-
tage at middle stage and speaks approximately the current
records of Argos: Agamemnon’s conflict in Troy,
his successful return, then his homicide at the
fingers of his spouse’s lover, Aegisthus. In addition,
Agamemnon’s son, Orestes, become compelled to flee to
store himself from Aegisthus, and Agamemnon’s
daughter Electra became for decades stored from
a suitable marriage till, in the end, she was compelled
to marry him, a low-born farmer. Aegisthus
had feared that Electra might have children
of noble birth, strong enough to avenge their
grandfather’s demise. The farmer has no longer forced
Electra to consummate
