Question

This character’s sister is burned with cigarettes after refusing to give away his location in Yaël ("yah-EL") Farber’s post-apartheid play Molora. Seeing this character causes Pythia to scream in a play in which he goes to a temple to be cleansed. In a later play, while women carry funeral urns to a statue of Zeus, this character introduces (15[1])himself under the alias Philebus. This character (15[1])devises a blood tribute to Zeus in a play in which he interprets himself as a (*) snake in his mother’s dream. This man uses a lock of hair to reunite with his sister at their father’s grave. This protagonist of Sartre’s The Flies is acquitted after Athena casts a tie-breaking vote at a trial for his murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. For 10 points, name this son of Agamemnon, the namesake of a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. ■END■

ANSWER: Orestes [accept Oresteia]
<Felix Wang, European Literature>
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