An Iris Murdoch poem about a “class” on this play teases a three-volume commentary on this play by Eduard Fraenkel. This play is the source of a saying in its original language that “there is no wisdom without pain.” A woman in this play chastises the chorus for believing a herald but not her “victory-howl.” This play’s title (15[1])character inspired Civil War general Ezra Mannon in The Homecoming, the first play in a cycle by (*) Eugene O’Neill. This play’s protagonist is persuaded by his wife to walk on a carpet of red (10[1])robes, (10[1])foreshadowing that she will stab him and his lover Cassandra to death (10[1])in the (10[1])bathtub, (-5[2])an act that drives the plot of this play’s sequel, The Libation Bearers. For 10 points, name this play in which Clytemnestra murders the title king of Mycenae, the first play of Aeschylus’s Oresteia. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])