In one play by this author, a sister spots a lock of hair on her father's tomb, which prompts her brother and her cousin Pylades to emerge from a hiding place to help her conjure a spirit.
In one play by this author, a sister spots a lock of hair on her father's tomb, which prompts her brother and her cousin Pylades to emerge from a hiding place to help her conjure a spirit. The title character of another of this man's plays tells the outcast Io that her offspring will rescue him from a torment inflicted by Kratos, Bia, and Hephaestus on the orders of (*) Zeus. The title man is persuaded to step on a purple tapestry signifying his hubris, and is then murdered in his bath, in the first of three plays this man wrote about a man who kills his murderous mother Clytemnestra. For 10 points, name this earliest of the three great Athenian tragedians, who wrote Prometheus Bound and Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides, which comprise his Oresteia trilogy.
In one play by this author, a sister spots a lock of hair on her father's tomb, which prompts her brother and her cousin Pylades to emerge from a hiding place to help her conjure a spirit.
Aeschylus