The cover page is adapted from Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, a painting completed in 1869 by Frederick Leighton. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leightonwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Libation Bearers
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- The Libation Bearers 10:38
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In Aeschylus’ The Libation Bearers, the second play of his Oresteia trilogy, the story continues the cycle of vengeance that began with the murder of Agamemnon. The play opens with Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, returning to Argos to avenge his father’s death. Commanded by Apollo, Orestes and his sister Electra plot to kill Agamemnon’s murderers—their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.