Study Guide

Libation Bearers Characters

By Aeschylus

Even for a guy who's got an entire tragic trilogy (the Oresteia) named after him, Orestes is one...

Electra disappears before the half-way mark in Libation Bearers, never to be seen again. From the...

To really see Clytemnestra in her element, you should turn to Agamemnon, the first play in...

Unlike the Chorus in Agamemnon, the first part of the Oresteia trilogy, who were a bunch of...

Aegisthus is Clytemnestra's new lover. We met him at the end of Agamemnon, where he almost got...

Pylades was the son of Strophius the Phocian, Orestes's foster father. He is deeply devoted to...

The Nurse only appears briefly. She tells us embarrassing stories about Orestes as a baby, and...

The doorman is in charge of manning the door of the palace in Argos. Apparently he is slow in...

The House-Slave runs out of the house to announce that Aegisthus has been killed. That's about it.

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