At the beginning of this work, one character is asked "May you not hurt your enemy when he struck first?"
At the beginning of this work, one character is asked "May you not hurt your enemy when he struck first?" To carry-out his mission, the protagonist plans to "assume the Parnassian dialect" and his former nurse, Cilissa, is sent to fetch the king without his bodyguards following the advice from the chorus that "it is the messenger who makes the bent word straight." Disguised as a Daulian from Phocis, the main character enters Argos with his friend Pylades and is told to "let Loxias touch [him]" following his murder of his mother and her lover. FTP name this work centering on the vengeance Orestes visits on Aegisthus and Clytemnestra; the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, whose title characters are a chorus of women bearing offerings to the grave of Agamemnon.
At the beginning of this work, one character is asked "May you not hurt your enemy when he struck first?"
The Libation-Bearers or Choephori