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    The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon...
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    He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy. His Oresteia is the only extant ancient example. At least one of his plays was influenced...
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    king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Sparta. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and...
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    The Oresteia riots (Greek: Ορεστειακά, Orestiaka), which took place in November 1903 and resulted in two deaths, were a series of riots against the translation...
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    a vengeful soul in The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. She plans out an attack with her brother to kill their mother...
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  • Oresteia (Орестея in Cyrillic) is an opera in three parts, eight tableaux, with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887–1894. The composer titled...
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  • Doctor, and his modern adaptations of classic texts, including versions of Oresteia, Mary Stuart, and 1984, devised with Duncan Macmillan. Born in Stockton-on-Tees...
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    Oresteia is a Greek opera by Iannis Xenakis originally composed in 1965 and 1966. The work is based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus. It is written for a...
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  • Awards for her work in The Revengers' Comedies (1992), Skylight (1997), and Oresteia (2015). Williams was born in Birkenhead. Her first job in 1984 was understudying...
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    at the Almeida Theatre, London, as Electra in a new adaptation of The Oresteia, to positive reviews. The production subsequently moved to the Trafalgar...
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  • Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus is a 1981 oil-on-canvas triptych painting by Francis Bacon. It is one of 28 large triptych paintings by...
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    Homer at the end of the 8th century BC, and the second from Aeschylus's Oresteia, written in the 5th century BC. Aegisthus also features heavily in the...
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  • Reflections of the Oresteia in the arts and popular culture show the influence of the classic trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus. Several composers have...
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    much older works. In particular Orestes plays a main role in Aeschylus' Oresteia. The Greek name Ὀρέστης, having become "Orestēs" in Latin and its descendants...
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    thrown over him to prevent resistance. This is the case in Aeschylus's Oresteia. In Homer's version of the story in the Odyssey, Aegisthus ambushes and...
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    of an actor who committed matricide while acting in a production of the Oresteia, and stars Grace Zabriskie. In 2009, Lynch had plans to direct a documentary...
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    very similar line can be found in the Agamemnon, the first play of the Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek tragedian and playwright Aeschylus. The line...
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    of Atreus. This story is the major plot line of Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Plato in his dialogue The Statesman tells a "famous tale" that "the sun...
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    War by at least 300 years. The play Agamemnon from Aeschylus's trilogy Oresteia depicts the king treading the scarlet cloth laid down for him, and walking...
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  • received a Drama League Award nomination for her portrayal of Elektra in An Oresteia as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her performance in Edward...
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  • include James in Tiger Country at the Hampstead Theatre, Orestes in the Oresteia at the Almeida Theatre and Laertes in the 2017 production of Hamlet. Thompson...
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  • to mirror the title of Aeschylus' only extant trilogy, the Oresteia. Unlike the Oresteia, only one play from this trilogy—Prometheus Bound—survives....
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  • in Glasgow. He has also appeared at the Citizens Theatre as Orestes in Oresteia This Restless House and Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night in 2017...
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    Orestès (Orestes). It was an adaptation of the first two parts of Aeschylus' Oresteia (Agamemnon and Libation Bearers). The text was printed in de Lisle's collection...
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  • Bacon. The canvasses are based on the Eumenides—or Furies—of Aeschylus's Oresteia, and depict three writhing anthropomorphic creatures set against a flat...
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    It was eventually published in 2001 and included in her 2009 book An Oresteia, which won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2010. Featuring Aeschylus'...
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    appeared on the London stage as Iphigenia in Robert Icke's adaptation of Oresteia. She had further roles as Rosalind in Alexi Kay Campbell's Sunset at the...
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    Sam Gibbs and Su Thomas Hendrickson in Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by Ryan Castalia for Stairwell Theater, 2019...
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    Oresteia by Aeschylus, adapted by Stairwell Theater, 2019...
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    Stage. Retrieved 25 July 2013. Alfred Hickling (29 October 2015). "The Oresteia review – gripping Aeschylus in a hellish beach resort". The Guardian. Retrieved...
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