In this play, the herald Talthybius details the king's victories and difficulties in return from battle, following the Watchman's observation of a series of flames signaling the title character's return. He is encouraged to walk on an item hand-weaved by his queen, a purple carpet, though that leads to a bloodbath. Ending with the murders of Cassandra and the title character by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, this is, for 10 points, what fi
In this play, the herald Talthybius details the king's victories and difficulties in return from battle, following the Watchman's observation of a series of flames signaling the title character's return. He is encouraged to walk on an item hand-weaved by his queen, a purple carpet, though that leads to a bloodbath. Ending with the murders of Cassandra and the title character by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, this is, for 10 points, what first play of the Aeschylus's Oresteia.
In this play, the herald Talthybius details the king's victories and difficulties in return from battle, following the Watchman's observation of a series of flames signaling the title character's return.
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