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Second part of the [[Tragedy]] trilogy ''[[The Oresteia (Theatre)|The Oresteia]]'' by [[Aeschylus]].
 
Some time after [[Agamemnon (Theatre)|Agamemnon’s murder]], his son Orestes and a friend, Pylades, arrive to his grave after a long exile. Soon, they both hide as Orestes’ sister, Electra, arrives at the tomb with some slaves [[Title Drop|carrying libations]]. She sees two locks of hair in the tomb, having been left there by Orestes earlier, prompting him to come out of his hiding place and convince his sister of his identity.
 
She tells him of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra’s plot to murder Agamemnon and, after a long rant that involves summoning the spirit of their father to help them, Orestes decides to avenge his father by murdering both his mother and her lover.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Orestes suffers this after his mother’s death.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Orestes convinces himself that he must kill his mother to avenge his father.
* [[Libation for Thethe Dead]]: It's actually on the title.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: What he feels afterwards.
* [[Patricide]]: This is, actually, one of the few examples of matricide on fiction.
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