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Libation Bearers Lesson Plan

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Libation Bearers is the second play in the Oresteia, a trilogy by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Libation Bearers is preceded by Agamemnon and followed by The Eumenides. The only other Greek tragedians whose work has survived are Sophocles (Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus) and Euripides (Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus).

Aeshylus's work has influenced countless other dramatists, Shakespeare being one of the most notable. Major tragedies by Shakespeare include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. More modern tragedies of note are Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey...

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