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Aeschylus here dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon, returning victorious from the Trojan War, is treacherously slain by his wife. It ends with the trial of their son, Orestes, who slew his mother to avenge her treachery.
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"In their day, these poetic, highly stylized tragedies were chanted rather than acted…Thus they work particularly well in audio format. This production makes the most of modern technology to create haunting choral effects. The individual actors are all well-cast, and their performances are evenly balanced."
Kliatt
"In this terrifying masterpiece of his last years, Aeschylus passed through tragedy
and out onto the other side: to a Divine Comedy of the stage."
Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama
"The Oresteia is perhaps the most unusual tragedy in the theater of the West and certainly one of the very greatest."
David Grene, University of Chicago scholar and noted translator of ancient Greek texts