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The Oresteia by AESCHYLUS (c. 525/524 - 456/455 BC), translated by Edmund Doidge Anderson MORSHEAD (1849 - 1912) Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Plays, Drama Read by: in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Dramatis Personae 00:02:09 - 02 - Agamemnon, Part 1 01:02:44 - 03 - Agamemnon, Part 2 01:50:36 - 04 - The Libation Bearers, Part 1 02:30:08 - 05 - The Libation Bearers, Part 2 03:05:08 - 06 - The Furies, Part 1 03:44:48 - 07 - The Furies, Part 2 The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his s