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The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) by Philip (Translator) Aeschylus /. Vellacott, Philip Vellacott (Introduction), W. Bedell Stanford Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1965 ISBN-10: 0-14-044067-4 / 0140440674 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044067-6 / 9780140440676 The only surviving trilogy from ancient times - a story of murder, madness and justiceAeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been |