The Libation Bearers

About the show

Years after Agamemnon’s murder, his son Orestes returns to Argos with Pylades and meets his sister Electra at their father’s tomb. Following Apollo’s command and the Chorus’s encouragement, Orestes and Electra plan revenge: Orestes kills Aegisthus and then, despite hesitation, kills their mother Clytemnestra. The Furies pursue him for matricide.