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Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Agamemnon home and murdered, Orestes’ revenge, the Furies in court. The only surviving Greek trilogy, prize at the Dionysia in 458 BC. Sovereign ebook: revenge becoming litigation, blood becoming a city’s law. Clytemnestra, Athena, a cycle that has to end in something other than another knife. Principal themes named without a schoolroom. The house of Atreus, and the invention of a hearing.