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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: None of the slaves and other people in the household are big fans of the current ruler, on account of them murdering Agamemnon.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: None of the slaves and other people in the household are big fans of the current ruler, Aegisthus, on account of them murdering Agamemnon.Aegisthus conspiring with Clytemnestra to murder the rightful king, Agamemnon, and usurp the throne.
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* PlayingTheFamilyCard: When Orestes is about to kill Clytemnestra as revenge for her killing Agamemnon, she pleads for her lives on the ground that she is his mother, baring her breasts to show how she suckled him as a baby. He goes ahead with killing her anyway.
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* TheVoiceless: Pylades is silent throughout the play except for one line toward the end, urging Orestes to kill Clytemnestra. Particularly important because Greek tragedies at the time had a maximum of three actors to perform speaking roles; "using up" one of them in many scenes for the silent Pylades is an interesting artistic decision.
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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}}''...
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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, 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}}''...
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* 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.
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* DownerEnding: Orestes kills both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but not only does the CycleOfRevenge not end there, but he also is tormented by Erinyes.
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* 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.
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* UndignifiedDeath: Electra and Orestes see Agamemnon's death as this (being tied up in a bath and killed while helpless by his wife), wife while he was helpless), 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.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Orestes' motivation for murdering both his mother and Aegisthus is their actions in [[Theatre/{{Agamemnon}} the prior play]].
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* RightfulKingReturns: Orestes, Agamemnon's heir, returns to kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra and take over rulership of Argos again - though the latter part gets delayed courtesy of the Erinyes.
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* 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.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: None of the slaves and other people in the household are big fans of the current ruler, on account of them murdering Agamemnon.
* AbusiveParents: Electra and Orestes see Clytemnestra as this. Electra describes how her mother treats her little better than a slave, and Orestes is furious about being sent away and essentially exiled to give Clytemnestra the opportunity to kill Agamemnon.
* 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.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
* BigDamnReunion: Orestes and Electra are reunited after being separated for years at the. beginning of the play.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Orestes and Electra, teaming up to avenge their father by killing Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
* AbusiveParents: Electra and Orestes see Clytemnestra as this. Electra describes how her mother treats her little better than a slave, and Orestes is furious about being sent away and essentially exiled to give Clytemnestra the opportunity to kill Agamemnon.
* 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.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
* BigDamnReunion: Orestes and Electra are reunited after being separated for years at the. beginning of the play.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Orestes and Electra, teaming up to avenge their father by killing Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
* TheExile: Orestes.
* FakingTheDead: Orestes, [[KingIncognito dressed as a guest]], tells Clytemnestra that Orestes is dead.
* FakingTheDead: Orestes, [[KingIncognito dressed as a guest]], tells Clytemnestra that Orestes is dead.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Clytemnestra killed her husband, the king Agamemnon, and now Orestes plans to kill her in revenge.
* KilledOffscreen: Aegisthus and Clytemnestra (given this was an Ancient Greek play, they couldn't do the violence on screen.
* KingIncognito: Orestes gets into the palace by pretending to be a foreign guest.
* KingIncognito: Orestes gets into the palace by pretending to be a foreign guest.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What he feels afterwards.
* {{Patricide}}: This is, actually, one of the few examples of matricide in fiction.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What he feels afterwards.
MadeASlave: The chorus describes being made slaves after their cities were taken.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What Orestes feels afterwards.
* NobleBirdOfPrey: Orestes compares Agamemnon to a powerful eagle and him and Electra to the eagle's young.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What Orestes feels afterwards.
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* RulingCouple: Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
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* SoundOnlyDeath: Aegisthus (as typical for Greek tragedies where they couldn't show the violence on screen.
* StayInTheKitchen: The chorus gives a speech about various women who committed evil deeds and conclude by saying they honor women who stay in their homes and do nothing.
* TogetherInDeath: Orestes threatens to kill Clytemnestra right after killing Aegisthus, saying that because they chose to live together and love each other (instead of Clytemnestra staying with Agamemnon) they should die together. He makes good on his oath.
* StayInTheKitchen: The chorus gives a speech about various women who committed evil deeds and conclude by saying they honor women who stay in their homes and do nothing.
* TogetherInDeath: Orestes threatens to kill Clytemnestra right after killing Aegisthus, saying that because they chose to live together and love each other (instead of Clytemnestra staying with Agamemnon) they should die together. He makes good on his oath.
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* VillainsWantMercy: Clytemnestra tries to convince Orestes to spare her life. It doesn't work.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Orestes' motivation for murdering both his mother and Aegisthus is their actions in [[{{Agamemnon}} the prior play]].
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* YouKilledMyFather: Orestes' motivation for murdering both his mother and Aegisthus is their actions in [[{{Agamemnon}} [[Theatre/{{Agamemnon}} the prior play]].
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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,") Ones"), aka the Furies, incarnations of vengeance whom even the gods cannot control. The story continues in ''Theatre/{{Eumenides}}''...
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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.
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Some time after [[Theatre/{{Agamemnon}} Agamemnon’s murder]], his son Orestes and a friend, Pylades, arrive to at 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.
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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.
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Orestes and Pylades pretend to be wandering travelers and knock on the door, calling on 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 that she bore and raised him. Orestes has trouble deciding if he has to murder her too to avenge her his father or not, but eventually decides the cause is just and does it. Then he wraps both corpses on Agamemnon’s cloak.
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* 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.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Clytemnestra dream dreams of giving birth to a snake and giving it the breast while it also sucks her blood. She understands it shortly before her death.
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* 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.
* DownerEnding: Orestes kills both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but not only the CycleOfRevenge doesn’t end there, but he also is tormented by Erinyes.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Clytemnestra dream of giving birth to a snake and giving it breast while it also sucks her blood. She understands it soon shortly before her death.
* DownerEnding: Orestes kills both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but not only does the CycleOfRevengedoesn’t not end there, but he also is tormented by Erinyes.
* DownerEnding: Orestes kills both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but not only does the CycleOfRevenge
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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 he wraps both corpses on Agamemnon’s cloak.
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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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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* BystanderSyndrome: The chorus’ reaction of Aegisthus’ murder.
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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.
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.
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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 property rightful prey of the vengeful Erinyes or Eumenides ("Kindly Ones,") aka the Furies, incarnations of vengeance 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.control. The story continues in ''Theatre/{{Eumenides}}''...
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.
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Sadly for Orestes, the cycle of violence doesn’t end there. The murder 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 motherplagues him with guilt and soon starts seeing the Erinyes (anthropomorphic versions of vengueance) surrounding him, prompting him to flee in pain.doesn't count as kinslaying.
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
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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.
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Some time after [[{{Agamemnon}} [[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.
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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.
She tells him of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra’s plot to murder Agamemnon and, after a long rant that involves summoning the spirit of their father to help them, Orestes decides to avenge his father by murdering both his mother and her lover.
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.
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.
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!!''The Libation Bearers'' provides examples of:
* ClassicalMythology
* CycleOfRevenge: Picks it up from the previous play and leaves it open for conclusion.
* 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.
* EvilMatriarch: Clytemnestra.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The characters keep mentioning the Erinyes throughout the play, and they finally appear after Orestes has consummated both murders. Also, another that goes back to the previous tragedy, when [[TheCassandra Cassandra]] warns that Orestes will kill Aegisthus.
* GreekChorus: Slave women.
* HeroicBSOD: Orestes suffers this after his mother’s death.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Orestes convinces himself that he must kill his mother to avenge his father.
* LibationForTheDead: It's actually on the title.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What he feels afterwards.
* {{Patricide}}: This is, actually, one of the few examples of matricide on fiction.
* RoyallyScrewedUp
* SacredHospitality: Orestes and Pylades use this as an excuse to be received when they disguise as travelers.
* SomebodyElsesProblem: The chorus’ reaction of Aegisthus’ murder.
* {{Tragedy}}
* TrueCompanions: Pylades for Orestes.
* WingedHumanoid: The Erinyes.
* YouKilledMyFather
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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.
She tells him of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra’s plot to murder Agamemnon and, after a long rant that involves summoning the spirit of their father to help them, Orestes decides to avenge his father by murdering both his mother and her lover.
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.
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.
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!!''The Libation Bearers'' provides examples of:
* ClassicalMythology
* CycleOfRevenge: Picks it up from the previous play and leaves it open for conclusion.
* 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.
* EvilMatriarch: Clytemnestra.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The characters keep mentioning the Erinyes throughout the play, and they finally appear after Orestes has consummated both murders. Also, another that goes back to the previous tragedy, when [[TheCassandra Cassandra]] warns that Orestes will kill Aegisthus.
* GreekChorus: Slave women.
* HeroicBSOD: Orestes suffers this after his mother’s death.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Orestes convinces himself that he must kill his mother to avenge his father.
* LibationForTheDead: It's actually on the title.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: What he feels afterwards.
* {{Patricide}}: This is, actually, one of the few examples of matricide on fiction.
* RoyallyScrewedUp
* SacredHospitality: Orestes and Pylades use this as an excuse to be received when they disguise as travelers.
* SomebodyElsesProblem: The chorus’ reaction of Aegisthus’ murder.
* {{Tragedy}}
* TrueCompanions: Pylades for Orestes.
* WingedHumanoid: The Erinyes.
* YouKilledMyFather
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