![]() He then returns from the successful campaign to be murdered by furious wife Klytemnestra, who in turn is done in by vengeful son Orestes, who’s hounded for his crime until his life is imperiled.Īs it sadly happens, the Oresteia is the only three-pronged Greek canon work to survive intact through the intervening years. That’s the trilogy – Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Eumenides – wherein Agamemnon, to get the Trojan war underway, sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia. Then there’s the hands-down cake-taker: the three linked plays often referred to as The House of Atreus and just as often as Oresteia. To name two glaring dysfunctional-family examples: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Euripides’ Medea. If so, it must be conceded that the Greeks, as they have in so many things, got there first 2500 years ago. ![]() It’s often said that the quintessential American play concerns the dysfunctional family. ![]() Anastasia Hille, Luke Treadaway in Oresteia. ![]()
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