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The first drama in Aeschylus's trilogy Oresteia, opens with the return of Agememnon from the Trojan War and closes with his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, to avenge his sacrificing their daughte...… more ››$1.15 add to cart -
Sophocles wrote this tragedy about Ajax, a heroic leader at the siege of Troy. After Achilles death, Greek leaders award his arms to Odysseus rather than Ajax. Bitter disappointment overwhelms his...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
In this play by Euripides, Andromache, has been the concubine of Neopotolemus for ten years and has borne his son, Molossus. The wife of Neoptolemus, Hermione, is childless and believes Andromache ...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
Antigone, by Sohpocles, traces the fates of King Oedipus's children. His sons die at each other's hands in a struggle for Thebes, after their father's death. The new king, Creon, forbids the burial...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
The children of Heracles are on the run from Eurystheus and hiding in Athens. They are found and their surrender is ordered. When the king of Athens refuses to hand them over to Eurystheus' emissar...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
Electra is Euripides' version of the Greek tragedy of Electra and Orestes, the daughter and son of the murdered king Agamemnon. Once Orestes returns from his exile, he and Electra plot to avenge th...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
Electra, daughter of the murdered Agamemnon, assumes her brother Orestes to be dead. The obligation to avenge Agamemnon's death belonged to Orestes, but when reports of his death reach Electra and ...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
In Greek myth, Eumenides, or Furies, are spirits who avenge intrafamily offenses, especially the murder of one family member by another. In Aeschylus?s play Eumenides, Orestes is pursued by these s...… more ››$1.15 add to cart -
Hecuba, widow of King Priam, is an icon of sorrow and loss. She becomes the property of Odysseus after the fall of Troy, but her daughter Polyxena chooses death over slavery and is killed. Hecuba ...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
Euripides' Helen is not directly responsible for the Trojan War; rather, it is her "shadow" that Paris takes to Troy and the war is waged on a false basis. Meanwhile, Helen waits in Egypt for her ...… more ››$1.70 add to cart
