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Chorus Metamorphosis (The Chorus of the Oresteia) An Examination of Imagery Across Genres: The... Old Argives, Enslaved Ingénues, and Grotesque... The Poetics in Aeschylus' Libation Bearers and... Electra and Traditional Greek Beliefs in The...

The Greek chorus is a group of individuals who form a single entity that expresses the ideas, thoughts, and histories of a larger group. Often, it represents the consensus of the audience or of society as a whole, for example the chorus of Agamemnon. Aeschylus utilizes this common form of the chorus in his plays, but the true distinctness of his…

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