History Theatre / TheLibationBearers

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: None of the slaves and other people in the household are big fans of the current ruler, on account of them murdering Agamemnon.

Sadly for Orestes, the cycle of violence doesn’t end there. Anyone in ancient Greece who slays a family member has broken a serious moral law, and becomes the rightful prey of the Erinyes or Eumenides ("Kindly Ones"), aka the Furies, incarnations of vengeance whom even the gods cannot control. The story continues in ''Theatre/{{Eumenides}}''...

* AfterActionVillainAnalysis: Orestes delivers a speech at the end about Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, why he thinks they were horrible and what led them to acting as they did.

* DownerEnding: Orestes kills both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but not only does the CycleOfRevenge not end there, but he also is tormented by Erinyes.

* SoundOnlyDeath: Aegisthus (as typical for Greek tragedies where they couldn't show the violence on screen.

* UndignifiedDeath: Electra and Orestes see Agamemnon's death as this (being tied up in a bath and killed while helpless by his wife), and mention how undignified it is while trying to talk to his ghost, in order to anger him enough that he will help them in their revenge.

* YouKilledMyFather: Orestes' motivation for murdering both his mother and Aegisthus is their actions in [[Theatre/{{Agamemnon}} the prior play]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What he feels afterwards.
* {{Patricide}}: This is, actually, one of the few examples of matricide in fiction.

* YouKilledMyFather: Orestes' motivation for murdering both his mother and Aegisthus is their actions in [[{{Agamemnon}} the prior play]].

Sadly for Orestes, the cycle of violence doesn’t end there. Anyone in ancient Greece who slays a family member has broken a serious moral law, and becomes the rightful prey of the Erinyes or Eumenides ("Kindly Ones,") aka the Furies, incarnations of vengeance whom even the gods cannot control. The story continues in ''Theatre/{{Eumenides}}''...

* {{Patricide}}: This is, actually, one of the few examples of matricide on fiction.

Some time after [[Theatre/{{Agamemnon}} Agamemnon’s murder]], his son Orestes and a friend, Pylades, arrive to his grave after a long exile. Soon, they both hide as Orestes’ sister, Electra, arrives at the tomb with some slaves [[TitleDrop carrying libations]]. She sees two locks of hair in the tomb, having been left there by Orestes earlier, prompting him to come out of his hiding place and convince his sister of his identity.

Orestes and Pylades pretend to be wandering travelers and knock on the door, calling Aegisthus with news of Orestes’ death. Clytemnestra, delighted, goes inside to call Aegisthus, only for him to die when he meets Orestes in private. When she finds out, he threatens to kill her too, in spite of her pleading and reminding him of the fact she raised him. Orestes has trouble deciding if he has to murder her too to avenge her or not, but eventually decides the cause is just and does it. Then he wraps both corpses on Agamemnon’s cloak.

* BystanderSyndrome: The chorus’ reaction of Aegisthus’ murder.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Clytemnestra dream of giving birth to a snake and giving it breast while it also sucks her blood. She understands it shortly before her death.

* SacredHospitality: Orestes and Pylades use this as an excuse to be received when they disguise as travelers.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Clytemnestra dream of giving birth to a snake and giving it breast while it also sucks her blood. She understands it soon before her death.
* DownerEnding: Orestes kills both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but not only the CycleOfRevenge doesn’t end there, but he also is tormented by Erinyes.

* LibationForTheDead: It's actually on the title.

%%* YouKilledMyFather

Orestes and Pylades pretend to be wandering travelers and knock on the door, calling Aegisthus with news of Orestes’ death. Clytemnestra, delighted, goes inside to call Aegisthus, only for him to die when he meets Orestes in private. When she finds out, he threatens to kill her too, in spite of her pleading and reminding him of the fact she raised him. Orestes has trouble deciding if he has to murder her too to avenge her or not, but eventually decides the cause is just and does it. Then she wraps both corpses on Agamemnon’s cloak.

Orestes and Pylades pretend to be wandering travelers and knock on the door, calling Aegisthus with news of Orestes’ death. Clytemnestra, delighted, goes inside to call Aegisthus, only for him to die when he meets Orestes in private. When she finds out, he threatens to kill her too, in spite of her pleading and reminding him of the fact she raised him. Orestes has troubles deciding if he has to murder her too to avenge her or not, but eventually decides the cause is just and does it. Then she wraps both corpses on Agamemnon’s cloak.

Orestes and Pylades pretend to be wandering travelers and knock on the door, calling Aegisthus with news of Orestes’ death. Clytemnestra, delighted, goes inside to call Aegisthus, only for him to die when he meets Orestes in private. When she finds out, he threatens to kill her too, in spite of her pleading and remembering him of the fact she raised him. Orestes has troubles deciding if he has to murder her too to avenge her or not, but eventually decides the cause is just and does it. Then she wraps both corpses on Agamemnon’s cloak.

Second part of the {{tragedy}} trilogy ''Theatre/TheOresteia'' by {{Aeschylus}}.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology

* RoyallyScrewedUp

* {{Tragedy}}
* TrueCompanions: Pylades for Orestes.

* YouKilledMyFather

* ClassicalMythology

* SomebodyElsesProblem: The chorus’ reaction of Aegisthus’ murder.

Sadly for Orestes, the cycle of violence doesn’t end there. Anyone in ancient Greece who slays a family member becomes the property of the vengeful Eumenides ("Kindly Ones,") aka the Furies, whom even the gods cannot control.

Apollo, god of prophecy, pledges to protect Orestes and tells him to go to the temple of Athena and invoke her aid. Athena acts as Orestes' attorney of sorts, and successfully argues that he is not the rightful prey of the Furies, because killing his mother doesn't count as kinslaying.

Sadly for Orestes, the cycle of violence doesn’t end there. The murder of his mother plagues him with guilt and soon starts seeing the Erinyes (anthropomorphic versions of vengueance) surrounding him, prompting him to flee in pain.

Second part of the {{tragedy}} trilogy TheOresteia, written by {{Aeschylus}}.

Some time after [[{{Agamemnon}} Agamemnon’s murder]], his son Orestes and a friend, Pylades, arrive to his grave after a long exile. Soon, they both hide as Orestes’ sister, Electra, arrives at the tomb with some slaves [[TitleDrop carrying libations]]. She sees two locks of hair in the tomb, having been left there by Orestes earlier, prompting him to come out of his hiding place and convince his sister of his identity.