Clytaemnestra tangles Agamemnon in royal robes and stabs him to death, seeking revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia at the beginning of the Trojan War. Cassandra, meanwhile, has visions of her and Agamemnon’s deaths at the hands of Clytaemnestra. Queen Clytaemnestra convinces him to walk on tapestries laid out on the path to the palace. Agamemnon arrives with his new concubine, Cassandra, daughter of King Priam of Troy. The chorus of old Argive men reflect on the suffering Argos has endured in their king’s absence. In Agamemnon, the city of Argos waits impatiently for King Agamemnon and his army to return, ten years to the day from when they left to wage war on Troy. The Oresteia details the breaking of the curse of the House of Atreus following the murder of King Agamemnon by his wife, Queen Clytaemnestra in Agamemnon the murder of Clytaemnestra at the hands of their son, Orestes in The Libation Bearers and the vindication of Orestes by trial and the pacification of the Furies in The Eumenides.
Among the changes Aeschylus brought to tragedies were the innovation of trilogies of plays dealing with similar themes, the introduction of a second actor, and a more unified chorus. Aeschylus is credited by historians and philosophers such as Aristotle as being the father of tragedy, codifying many aspects of the genre seen in later plays by Sophocles and Euripides, the only other ancient Greek tragedians whose work remains intact.
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