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By Jennifer Goldberg - December 11, 2002

Analysis of Tragedy in Agamemnon The Thematic Purpose of the Powerless Underclass... Cassandra's Final Monologue The Significance of the Parados of the Oresteia Chorus Metamorphosis (The Chorus of the Oresteia) An Examination of Imagery Across Genres: The... Old Argives, Enslaved Ingénues, and Grotesque... Peripheral Vision

Aeschylus' Oresteia is undebatably one of antiquity's greatest surviving tragedies. Driven by the universal struggles of justice versus injustice, fear versus obligation and parent versus child, the play follows one ill-fated family through the passion, hatred and destruction that, through ultimate pain and suffering, eventually purges the lineage…

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