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Historical person
Orestes was the son of Agamemnon who avenges his father by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. His pursuit by the Furies and eventual trial transform a cycle of family revenge into a story about law, judgement and civic order.
In Susan C Wilson’s Clytemnestra’s Bind, Survival requires her to understand Agamemnon’s ambition while building a life around the children born from the marriage: Iphigenia, Electra and Orestes. In Euripides’s Electra and Other Plays, Electra revisits the murder of Agamemnon and the revenge of Orestes and Electra, while the other plays in the volume place damaged families and captive women in the aftermath of war.
Historical context
Series
The House of Atreus trilogy retells the dynastic violence surrounding Mycenae and the Trojan War through women traditionally judged by male-authored myth. Clytemnestra’s Bind begins with Agamemnon’s seizure of Clytemnestra and follows her attempt to protect her children inside a royal household shaped by inherited bloodshed. Helen’s Judgement…
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