I have long been fascinated by this trilogy and I would one day LOVE to do some form of an adaptation of it in translation. Plus we recently read the entire trilogy as a part of a Classical Mythology course I've been taking this semester :)
For those of you who don't know, 'The Oresteia' is a famous--perhaps THE MOST famous--trilogy of Athenian tragedies by the playwright, Aeschylus. It's unique not only in that it's the ONLY complete surviving trilogy of Greek tragedy, but that it deals with a single narrative: the story of the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance enacted by his son, Orestes. It's a very, VERY famous story that has inspired numerous works since its initial performance back in 458BC.
Quotes taken from the English translation by Richmond Lattimore.
Cast
Agamemnon | Richard Armitage
Klytemnestra | Lena Headey
Aegisthus | Ioan Gruffudd
Kassandra | Eva Green
Orestes | Richard Madden
Elektra | Katie McGrath
