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 of Mycenean women + 

Scene: At Mycenae before the Palace of Agamemnon. + 