Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)

Characters in shared stories

• Aegisthus
• Agamemnon
• Chorus
• Chorus of libation-bearing slave women
• Chrysothemis
• Electra
• Household prophets
• Orestes
• Pylades
• Thyestes