... , Zeus, master of all fulfillment, now fulfill our prayers " Speed our rites to their fulfillment once for all?- (ll 971-976) Clytaemnestra stabs Agamemnon three times "killing him. She is giving her justification to the chorus saying: " and then I strike him once, twice, and at each stroke he cries in agony " he buckles at the knees and crashes here ... third libation (wine offering), which at banquets would be poured to Zeus the savior. Clytaemnestra goes on to say: "Here is Agamemnon, my husband made a corpse/by this right hand "a masterpiece of Justice./Done is Done!- (ll1429-1431) T...

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... . He yields, though he knows that he is making a mistake, and gives her one more day. Medea must also conceal her purpose from everyone else in the play, except the chorus whom she must win over to her side. There is only one person who can and does pose a real obstacle to Medea's plans, who can effectively confront her with an ... themselves unjustly treated, would be huge and deadly. The epic poems [i.e., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] do not really question Achilles' right to bring destruction on the Greek army to avenge Agamemnon's insults, nor Odysseus' slaughter of the entire younger g...

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... suffering is the inevitable consequence of sin, until the wrong doing has been expiated. Aeschylus enriched the drama with his technical innovations. He introduced a second actor where only one and a chorus had been used previously, making possible the conflict of wills and ideas that is so essential to dramatic development. He is believed to have written over 90 dramatic plays, but ... only seven have survived. The suppliants is his earliest known play, while the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Choefori and Eumenides) is regarded as his most important work.Other plays that have survived a...

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