At war with Troy for ten years, Agamemnon finally returns home to his kingdom. His wife Cytemnestra is publicly glad to see him, yet plots to murder her husband and his new concubine. Seeking vengeance for the sacrifice of her daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis ten years earlier, will the queen succeed in taking the crown of Mycenae for herself? Or will loyalty to her king win out in the end?
Agamemnon is the first of three tragedies in the Oresteia trilogy, chronicling the final chapter of the House of Atreus. Written in the 5th century BC, it is one of only seven plays by Aeschylus to survive to the present day.
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