Dramatis Personae

• Aged servant of Orestes

• Orestes, son of Agamemnon, the late king of Argos, and Clytemnestra

• Electra and Chrysothemis, daughters of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

• Clytemnestra, Queen of Argos and Mycenae

• Aegisthus, cousin of Agamemnon, sometime paramour of Clytemnestra and now prince consort

• Chorus or Mycenean women

Scene: At Mycenae before the Palace of Agamemnon.