Aeschylus Oresteia Trilogy Prometheus Bound Author:Robert Corrigan, Editor; George Thomson, Translator The Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides) is probably the greatest work of Aeschylus. The curse on the House of Atreus involves King Agamemnon, his wife, Clytemnestra, and their son, Orestes, in a turbulent drama of murder and revenge. — Prometheus Bound is one of the great perenial themes in literature. Through the suffering o... more »f its courageous hero we see the fate of those who defy the gods.« less