One character in this play adopts the Parnassian dialect and the accent of Phocis to conceal his identity.
One character in this play adopts the Parnassian dialect and the accent of Phocis to conceal his identity. The chorus of this play relates one character's nightmare about giving birth to a snake that draws blood while feeding on her breast, which the protagonist interprets as a representation of himself. While visiting a grave with his friend Pylades, the main character leaves a lock of his hair that enables his recognition, triggering the primary action of this work. The nurse Cilissa bemoans the death of the protagonist of this play, whose ending implies the arrival of (*) Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone, before being informed that its protagonist is still alive and told to fetch Aegisthus without guards. This play sees Clytemnestra slain by her children Electra and Orestes to avenge the murder of their father, the title figure of the preceding work, Agamemnon. Followed by The Furies, FTP, identify this second play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, whose title figures are old women who carry around tributary alcohol.
One character in this play adopts the Parnassian dialect and the accent of Phocis to conceal his identity.
The {Libation Bearers} or {Choephoroi} (prompt on Oresteia before mentioned)