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Oresteia:
A Myth Onstage
Aeschylus, Oresteia
•WHERE
Athens
Theater of Dionysus
•WHEN
Spring (March/April) 458 BCE
Festival of Dionysus
•WHO
all citizens
contest among three dramatists
Athens
Theater of Dionysus
Great Dionysia (“Festival of Dionysus”)
Great Dionysia
priest of Dionysus
all Athenian citizens
ten judges
state-sponsored competition
the chorus
song, choreography
chorus
diaulos (“double oboe”)
male actors
full mask
costume
Heracles
murder of Agamemnon
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