It could be suggested is that the dramatic trilogy The Oresteia is author's way of telling readers that mankind cannot hope to build a progressive society if there is a constant need for revenge. Apollo has threatened Orestes with horrible punishments, including leprosy, if Orestes refuses to carry out Apollo's instructions or if he fails at this task. His mission is to revenge Agamemnon's murder. He has returned to Argos on a mission he has been sent by an oracle of the God Apollo. Many years after king Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytamnestra with the help of her lover Aigisthos, Agamemnon's son Orestes returns surreptitious to his home in Argos to visit his father's grave. The idea was that nothing can wash away a bloodstain except for more blood. In The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the ancient law requires that blood must be paid for with blood in an unending cycle of doom.
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