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action actor Adrastus Aeschylus Agamemnon already ancient Apollo appears Argos Athenian Athens audience avenger beauty believe character chorus citizens conventional critics curse dance dead death Deianeira Dionysus divine drama effect emotion enemy Eteocles Euripides expression fact father feeling festival Finally follows give gods Greek Greek Tragedy hand Heracles hero honour human ideas imagination important interest kind king land language legend less lyrical matriarchy means moral mother murdered nature Oedipus Orestes origin performance perhaps Pericles Persians person Philoctetes phrase play plot poet poetical poetry possible present probably Prometheus reader reason religion religious represented ruin scene seems shows significance simply sometimes song sons Sophocles speech spirit stands story suffering suggested suppliants theme things thought traditional tragedy tragic Troy turn whole wife woman women worship Xerxes Zeus