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 character inspired Civil War general Ezra Mannon in The Homecoming, the first play in a cycle (15[1])by (*) Eugene O’Neill. (10[1])This play’s protagonist is persuaded by his wife to walk on a carpet of red robes, foreshadowing that she will stab him and his lover Cassandra to death in the bathtub, an act (10[1])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■