After one character of this work explains his plan, the Chorus tells of the stories of Althaea, Scylla, and the women of Lemnos.
After one character of this work explains his plan, the Chorus tells of the stories of Althaea, Scylla, and the women of Lemnos. One woman in this work has dreams of giving birth to and nursing a serpent, and the man who that serpent represents states that he is a stranger from Daulis. Another character in this work discovers that man's identity when she finds a lock of his hair and footprints that match her own. The Chorus also tells the nurse Cilissa to bring Aegisthus without his bodyguards and the protagonist has more difficulty killing Aegisthus's wife. The only lines spoken by the protagonist's best friend, Pylades, claim it is necessary for that man to avenge his father Agamemnon. For 10 points, name this play by Aeschylus, in which Orestes kills his mother Clytemnestra, the second of the Oresteia.
After one character of this work explains his plan, the Chorus tells of the stories of Althaea, Scylla, and the women of Lemnos.
Libation Bearers or Choephoroi [prompt on "Oresteia."]