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  2. Eumenides - Wikipedia

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    The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eumenides .

  3. Orestes (play) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Oresteia - Wikipedia

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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).

  5. Aeschylus - Wikipedia

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    Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis. [48] The Oresteia trilogy concentrated on humans' position in the cosmos relative to the gods and divine law and divine punishment. [49] Aeschylus' popularity is evident in the praise that the comic playwright Aristophanes gives him in The Frogs, produced some 50 years after Aeschylus ...

  6. Seven Against Thebes (play) - Wikipedia

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    Seven Against Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας, Hepta epi Thēbas; Latin: Septem contra Thebas) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. [2]

  7. Category:Plays by Aeschylus - Wikipedia

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  8. Achilleis (trilogy) - Wikipedia

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    A small number of verses from these three of Aeschylus' lost works have been saved: fifty-four from Myrmidons, seven from Nereids and twenty-one from Phrygians. A sense of the pace at which additions to this corpus are made can be gleaned from the fact that a papyrus fragment containing seven letters on three lines that could be fitted over a two-line quote from Justin Martyr's dialogue Trypho ...

  9. Category:Aeschylus - Wikipedia

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    Adaptations of works by Aeschylus (9 C, 2 P) P. Plays by Aeschylus (31 P) Pages in category "Aeschylus" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.