In hiding, the protagonist and a companion watch the protagonist's sister pray for an avenger.
This play opens with a lock of hair being placed on a grave. In hiding, the protagonist and a companion watch the protagonist's sister pray for an avenger. A chorus relates a dream involving the nursing of a snake, and Cilissa speculates that the queen is secretly pleased to hear, from a traveler, of the death of the queen's exiled son. The traveler turns out to be the son in disguise, and the climax of the play occurs when Aegisthus and Clytemnestra are killed and the Eumenides appear to Orestes. FTP, name this middle play of Aeschylus's Orestia trilogy.
This play opens with a lock of hair being placed on a grave.
The Libation Bearers or Choephoroe