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The murder of Agamemnon, from an 1879 illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred ChurchĪgamemnon ( Ἀγαμέμνων, Agamémnōn) is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy. Oresteia originally included a satyr play, Proteus ( Πρωτεύς), following the tragic trilogy, but all except a single line of Proteus has been lost. The principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta to organized litigation. The only extant example of an ancient Greek theatre trilogy, the Oresteia won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BCE. The trilogy-consisting of Agamemnon ( Ἀγαμέμνων), The Libation Bearers ( Χοηφόροι), and The Eumenides ( Εὐμενίδες)-also shows how the Greek gods interacted with the characters and influenced their decisions pertaining to events and disputes. The Oresteia ( Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides). SNG Drama Ljubljana performs an adaptation of The Oresteia, in 1968