Crossword-Solution: ORESTEIA 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Had Jesus Christ or Socrates dwelt in Agamemnon's palace among the Atrides, then had there been no Oresteia; nor would Oedipus ever have dreamed of destroying his sight if they had been tranquilly seated on the threshold of Jocasta's abode.

Droysen’s eloquent commentaries in particular helped to bring before my imagination the intoxicating effect of the production of an Athenian tragedy, so that I could see the Oresteia with my mind’s eye, as though it were actually being performed, and its effect upon me was indescribable.

TRILOGY OF THE ORESTEIA FIRST PLAY: IN THE MORNING: _AGAMEMNON_ PROLOGUE _The Permanent Scene is decorated to represent the facade of the Palace of Agamemnon, at Argos; the platform over the Central door appearing as a Watch-tower.

Not the much and justly praised arrangement and poetical justice of the Oresteia or of the story of Oedipus excel the Arthuriad in what used to be called "propriety" (which has nothing to do with prudishness), while both are, as at least it seems to me, far inferior in varied and poignant interest.

This is the _Aeschylean trilogy_, of which we have only one extant example, the _Oresteia_--as to which critics may differ whether Aeschylus adhered in it to his principle that the strength should lie in the middle--in other words, that the interest should centre in the second play.