One character in this play repeats "Woe, woe, alas! Earth, Mother Earth! and thou,Apollo, Apollo!". A herald in this play confirms an outcome signaled by a sequenceof fires beginning on Ida, first seen by the (+) Watchman. One character enters on achariot followed by one carrying a prisoner of war and reluctantly dismounts onto a purple tapestry. The chorus in this play, which is made up of unfit soldiers, tells of a "thwarting blast" of wind that required a (*) sacrifice to calm. As the queen exits the palace with bloodied forehead, the body of the king lies next to Cassandra's. A military leader quarrels with Aegisthus before warning of the return of Orestes. For ten points, name this play
One character in this play repeats "Woe, woe, alas! Earth, Mother Earth! and thou,Apollo, Apollo!". A herald in this play confirms an outcome signaled by a sequenceof fires beginning on Ida, first seen by the (+) Watchman. One character enters on achariot followed by one carrying a prisoner of war and reluctantly dismounts onto a purple tapestry. The chorus in this play, which is made up of unfit soldiers, tells of a "thwarting blast" of wind that required a (*) sacrifice to calm. As the queen exits the palace with bloodied forehead, the body of the king lies next to Cassandra's. A military leader quarrels with Aegisthus before warning of the return of Orestes. For ten points, name this play by Aeschylus in which the title king is murdered by the queen Clytemnestra.
One character in this play repeats "Woe, woe, alas! Earth, Mother Earth! and thou,Apollo, Apollo!".
Agamemnon