Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)
• Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)

Places appearing with them

• Hearth and inner house
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Palace of the Atreidae
• Tomb of Agamemnon
• Women’s quarters of the Argive palace

Themes

• Birth
• Exile
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War