As the importance of actors grew and that of the chorus diminished, the stage became higher and encroached on the orchestra space. ... In Agamemnon, one of the greatest works of dramatic literature, King Agamemnon returns home from Troy and is treacherously murdered by his faithless wife Clytemnestra. In the second play, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returns to Argos and avenges the murder of his father by slaying his mother and her paramour Aegisthus. ... The characteristics of his works are the profundity of theme and the grandeur of the poetry recited by the chorus. ... As a young man, ...

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The "Supppliants" was his first work, but his most famous works that managed to survive of the over ninety plays were The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, The Orchestra, Agamemnon, and The Prometheus (Smith). Among them is most famous work, Agamemnon. ... Though he used a darker, more serious approach to play writing, Helen and the Cyclops come close to comedies(theater history 1). ... He contributed many innovations to Greek theater such as introduction of the third actor, the trilogy, which was used by Aeschylus. ... Sophocles made the number of actors and chorus la...

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Socrates used his chain of questions to help lead people to think further and search of wisdom. ... Even to this day, in the science world, we use different names for species. ... The three plays were Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. ... He also increased the number of people taking part in a chorus. ... He believed that everything can be reduced using an easier way. ...

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He introduced a second actor where only one and a chorus had been used previously, making possible the conflict of wills and ideas that is so essential to dramatic development. ... The suppliants is his earliest known play, while the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Choefori and Eumenides) is regarded as his most important work.Other plays that have survived are The seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound and The Persians. ...

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