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اورستیا
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The Oresteia () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
Key facts
- Play.name
- The Eumenides
- Play.image
- Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1862) - Google Art Project.jpg
- Play.caption
- Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Play.writer
- Aeschylus
- Play.original language
- Greek
- Play.genre
- Tragedy
- Play.chorus
- Slave women
- Play.characters
- WatchmanClytemnestraHeraldAgamemnonMessengerCassandraAegisthus
- Play.setting
- before the temple of Apollo at Delphi and in Athens
- Play.mute
- SoldiersServants
- Play.image_upright
- 0.65
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Agamemnon
- Author
- Aeschylus
- Genre
- Greek tragedy
- Main subject
- Orestes
- Image
- The Murder Of Agamemnon - Project Gutenberg eText 14994.png
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- Commons category
- Oresteia
- title
- Ὀρέστεια
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- date of first performance
- 0458-00-00
- derivative work
- Les Érinnyes
- copyright status
- public domain
- inception
- 0458-00-00
- form of creative work
- play
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