The coephoras
Original title: Las coéforas
Synopsis
Although it can be read independently, the coephoras is the second work of the Orestea, the only trilogy of Esquilo that we know in its entirety, and that opens with Agamenon and culminates in the eumenides. In the Greek author's coephoras, he represents the story of a vengeance: the one that, despite his doubts, must carry out Orestes with the support of his sister Electra following the murder of his father Agamenon at the hands of Clitemnestra and his lover Eghisto. In this tragedy, blood calls the blood and the terrible crime that means the magncide of Agamenon can only be punished with divine acquiescence, despite the suffering that the consummation of revenge can and must carry for Orestes. The conflict in the coephoras with the dichotomy between the divine imperatives and the human will reaches a level of an honor to which only the few and rare poets like Esquilo have access.
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