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Oresteia

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Despite this, Aeschylus' work – particularly the Oresteia – is acclaimed by today's literary academics.

Finucane, pp. 8–11 The 5th-century BC play Oresteia contains one of the first ghosts to appear in a work of fiction.

Only one complete trilogy of tragedies has survived, the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

P. Levi, Greek Drama, 159 He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy; his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.