![]() ![]() In Libation Bearers, Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, returns to Argos after several years and avenges his father's murder by killing his mother and her lover. Hoping to rule Argos together, the conspiring couple decides to kill the returning king and his mistress Cassandra, the daughter of the defeated King Priam. In his absence, his wife Clytemnestra has taken a lover who happens to be Agamemnon's first cousin Aegisthus. In the first play, Agamemnon, the Greek king of Argos and commander of the forces against King Priam's Troy, has returned home victorious after ten grueling years. As was common in many of the competitions, there was also a satyr play, the lost Proteus. ![]() Winning first prize at the Dionysia competition in 458 BCE, Libation Bearers was the second play in the trilogy The Oresteia the remaining two tragedies were Agamemnonand Eumenides. The play Libation Bearerswas written by one of the greatest of all Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. ![]()
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