Please answer the following questions about Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, devoting 6-10 thoughtful sentences to each response.
Due: Wednesday, April 4, noon.
What do you think is the purpose of the long first stasimon, in which Orestes and Electra participate (pp. 81-88)?
Do you think Clytemnestra's reaction upon hearing of Orestes' "death" is genuine? Why or why not?
Identify an exemplary theme, character, mode of performance, or piece of stagecraft in the Libation Bearers, and use it to explain how tragedy works as a genre.
