Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy

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Aeschylus. Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy

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MEMORANDUM

TRILOGY OF THE ORESTEIA

FIRST PLAY: IN THE MORNING: AGAMEMNON

SECOND PLAY: MIDDAY: THE SEPULCHRAL RITES (CHOEPHORI)

THIRD PLAY: AFTERNOON: THE GENTLE GODDESSES. EUMENIDES4

THE ELECTRA OF SOPHOCLES5

THE ELECTRA OF EURIPIDES6

THE ALCESTIS OF EURIPIDES7

THE CYCLOPS OF EURIPIDES

THE BACCHANALS OF EURIPIDES10

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The Sacred Legends touched by this Trilogy would be familiar, in outline, to the Auditors: e. g.:

The woes of the House of Atreus: the foundation of them laid by Atreus when, to take vengeance on his brother Thyestes, he served up to him at a banquet the flesh of his own sons;

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Strophe III: Altar to Right.

Antistrophe III: back to Altar.

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