Electra and Orestes plot to kill their mother Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in, FTP, this second play in the Oresteia by Aeschylus.
At the end of this play, the main character displays a robe that had been his mother's and declares that he had been told by Loxias that he could murder two people and be forgiven. One is frequently represented by a viper, and her husband by an eagle. Earlier, the former nurse Cilissa had been ordered to summon one of the main character's victims without his men-at-arms, and the other victim has a dream in which she gives birth to a snake that bites her. The main character, who, along with his friend Phylades, is pretending that he is from Phocis, places a lock of his hair on a grave and, as a result, meets his sister. Electra and Orestes plot to kill their mother Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in, FTP, this second play in the Oresteia by Aeschylus.
At the end of this play, the main character displays a robe that had been his mother's and declares that he had been told by Loxias that he could murder two people and be forgiven.
The {Libation Bearers}