The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus Author:Aeschylus, Paul Roche (Translator) Complete texts of The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides. — Aeschylus, the greatest of the Greek dramatists, brought to the theater a new art of narration and action, and a new concept of man and the divine. — Here is his chronicle of the aristocratic house of Atreus; of its hereditary curse, which impels husband and wife, son and daug... more »hter, to become the willing instruments of murder and revenge; and of the gods who preside over their tragic, human destiny.« less