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1.
"Orestes - can I call you? -are you really-" (The
Libation Bearer, 224-225)
"Now
look on me, armed with the branch and wreath, a suppliant bound for the Navelstone
of Earth, Apollo's sacred
heights, where they say the fire of heaven can never die." (The Libation
Bearer, 1031-1035)
2.
Apollo will never fail me, no,his
tremendous power, his oracle charges me
to see this
trial through. (272-274)
Electra
was pouring libations on the tomb. She cries to the tomb about Agamemnon's death.
Orestes shows up in front of Electra. Electra hesitates the identity of the
stranger as Orestes.
Orestes
swears that he will avenge his father's death. He told Electra about his murder
plan.
3.
"Strangers, please, tell me what would you like and it is yours. We've all you
might expect in a house like ours. We have warm baths and bed to charm away
your pains and the eyes of Justice look on all we do."(649-653)
Clytamenestra
welcomes Orestes as a stranger from Daulis. Later, Orestes inform her about
the death of Orestes.
4.
"- Must see him, test the messenger. Where was he when the boy died, standing
on the spot? Or is he dazed with rumour, mouthing hearsay? No, he'll never trap
me open-eyed." (837-840)
Aegisthus
went to test the messenger about how reliable the news of Orestes' death is.
However, he didn't know that this was a trap to murder him.
"Ai,
Ai, all over, master's dead - Aie, a third, last salute. Aegistus is no more...
I call to the deaf, to sleepers... a waste of breath. Where are you, Clytamenestra?
What are you doing?" (862-869)
The
servant who witness the death of Aegisthus rushed out and tell Clytamenestra
about the incident. Orestes comes out and goes after Clytamenestra.
After
Orestes kills Clytamenestra, he was persued by Clytamenestra's furies. Finally,
this was the ending of The Libation Bearer and the start of Eumenidies.
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