Aeschylus

A page from the Medicean manuscript (Laurentianus 32.9), the oldest and most authoritative witness to the surviving plays of Aeschylus, written in Constantinople around 1000 CE. The manuscript preserves the seven plays transmitted under Aeschylus's name, including all three plays of the Oresteia.

The Oresteia Trilogy

Full text of Aeschylus's Oresteia — the only surviving ancient Greek tragic trilogy — tracing the House of Atreus from Agamemnon's murder through the founding of Athenian civic justice.