Agamemnon (Play) – Mythopedia The Agamemnon is a tragedy composed by Aeschylus around 458 BCE In the play, the Greek warrior Agamemnon returns home after conquering Troy, only to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra
Medusa – Mythopedia Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies
Eumenides – Mythopedia The Eumenides is a tragedy composed by Aeschylus around 458 BCE It is the final entry in the tragic trilogy known as the Oresteia The play depicts Orestes’ trial and eventual acquittal for the murder of his mother Clytemnestra
Erinyes (Furies) – Mythopedia The Erinyes (“Furies”) were terrifying sisters who acted as goddesses of vengeance and retribution From their grim home in the Underworld, the Erinyes punished crimes that violated the natural order—especially offenses against family members
Clytemnestra – Mythopedia Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, was the wife of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae She and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon when he returned home from the Trojan War, but were later killed in turn by Orestes, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son
Iapetus – Mythopedia Iapetus was one of the original Greek Titans who fought (unsuccessfully) against the Olympians in the Titanomachy He fathered several well-known mythological figures, including Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus
Zeus – Mythopedia Zeus was the powerful but flawed king of the Greek pantheon and the supreme god of the Greeks He ruled over men and gods alike from his throne on Mount Olympus
Moirae (Fates) – Mythopedia Aeschylus, writing around the same time as Pindar, connected the Moirae with the myth of Alcestis: according to Aeschylus, Apollo got the Moirae drunk so that they would agree to let his friend, the mortal Admetus, escape his death if he could find a willing substitute to take his place
Iphigenia in Aulis – Mythopedia Many other authors who preceded Euripides, including Hesiod, Stesichorus, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, also treated this myth in their works Euripides himself dealt with the story in one of his earlier tragedies, Iphigenia among the Taurians
Danaids – Mythopedia The Danaids were princesses of Argive descent, the fifty daughters of King Danaus Forced against their will to marry their cousins (the fifty sons of Aegyptus), they killed their new husbands on their wedding night