Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father.
Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.
Greek TragedyChronological Table
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Preface to Agamemnon
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Preface to Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Preface to Medea
Medea by Euripides
Preface to Frogs
Extracts from Frogs by Aristophanes
Preface to Poetics
Extracts from Poetics by Aristotle
Notes
Genealogical Tables
Map of Ancient Greece
