Literature · Drama & Theatre Literature
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Medea
Euripides · 431 BCE
A foreign sorceress abandoned by her Greek husband for a more advantageous marriage takes a calculated revenge that includes killing their own…
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Agamemnon
Aeschylus · 458 BCE
A king returning triumphant from Troy is murdered in his own bath by his wife and her lover, opening a trilogy that argues a family's cycle of…
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Euripides
A foreign sorceress abandoned by her Greek husband for a more advantageous marriage takes a calculated revenge that includes killing their own children, staged to argue that a city's contempt for an outsider produces exactly the monstrousness it claims to fear.
about 85 minutes to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Sophocles
A king's relentless investigation into a murder turns out to be an investigation into himself, arguing that self-knowledge can arrive only through a fall no foresight could have prevented.
about 2.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Aeschylus
A king returning triumphant from Troy is murdered in his own bath by his wife and her lover, opening a trilogy that argues a family's cycle of blood-vengeance cannot be closed by more private killing, only by the public court that ends the whole Oresteia.
link checked 17 Sept 2026