The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies

Name: The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies
Author: Aeschylus

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Project Gutenberg

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Ted Garvin, Lorna Hanrahan, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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2005-08-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- Drama Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- Drama

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Aeschylus

-525–-456

Among the earliest great tragedians of ancient Greece, he helped shape drama into a serious art form. His surviving plays, including the Oresteia, still feel grand, tense, and full of questions about justice, power, and the gods.

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