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The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, 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).
Aeschylus' play Eumenides, the third part of his surviving Oresteia trilogy, enshrines the trial and acquittal of Orestes within the foundation of Athens itself, as a moment when legal deliberation surpassed blood vengeance as a means of resolution. As such, the fact that Euripides' version of the myth portrays Orestes being found guilty and ...
Aeschylus was born around 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Athens, in the fertile valleys of western Attica. [11] Some scholars argue that the date of Aeschylus's birth may be based on counting back 40 years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia. [12] His family was wealthy and well established.
He introduced a third actor, increased the number of chorus members to fifteen; he also introduced scenery and the use of scenes. Compared to Aeschylus, the chorus became less important in explaining the plot and there was a greater emphasis on character development and conflict. In Oedipus at Colonus, the chorus repeats "not to be born is best ...
TV movie, Canada Les Perses: 1961 TV movie, France Aeschylus: 1967 TV movie, Finland I Persiani: 1967 TV movie, Italy The Forgotten Pistolero: 1969 Italy Agamemnon: 1973 Belgium Orestea: 1975 Italy Atreides: 1979 TV movie, Greece Oresteia: 1979 TV mini-series, UK Prometheus Retrogressing: 1998 Le Rêve Plus Fort que la Mort: 2002 France Die ...
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Several composers have written musical treatments of all or part of Aeschylus's trilogy. From the late 19th century comes Sergey Taneyev's full-length opera Oresteia.In the 20th century Soviet composer Yury Alexandrovich Falik composed a one-act ballet Oresteia; Darius Milhaud supplied incidental music for the plays, the Vienese composer Ernst Krenek wrote Leben des Orest (The Life of Orestes ...