It was too predictable and, to me, didn't even come close to the depth of Agamemnon, with its turns and twists and deceit and intimate wishes for personal.personal something. Libation Bearers had people whining, 'Woe is me! Whatever am I to do?' with Big Good Orestes killing the Evil Villains With No Heart in the end. Agamemnon simply seemed to have more drama and problems in it. I didn't really like 'Libation Bearers,' actually.

Definitely amusing, to say the least.Agamemnon is surely my favorite of the three in the Oresteia. It just made me smile the subtle turns of phrase which he peppered all around the play. I won't say that I laughed out loud, because I didn't. I thought that they had much more soul than in 'Iphigenia at Aulis.' Aeschylus paid attention to each character, whether they were main or not.There was also a kind of sly wit in the Agamemnon which was lacking in Iphigenia. Perhaps it was the depth of the characters. And then, when the chorus rebuked her and told her why she was abhorrent and should be exiled, I moved next to them and was nodding again. When she ranted on about how she was right to kill her husband, it was as if I was standing over her shoulder, nodding away. It was as if I was having a conversation with the guard at the beginning, and with the herald, with the chorus, with Clytemnestra and then Agamemnon and definitely with Clytemnestra again. There's something that he did that brought me right up close, face to face with each character. I definitely liked Aeschylus's style better than Euripides' (in 'Iphigenia at Aulis').

The Oresteia by Aeschylus