Dramatis Personae + 

Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra + 

Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra + 

Clytemnestra, formerly wife to Agamemnon, now wedded to Aigisthos + 

Aigisthos, son of Thyestes, blood-foe to Agamemnon, and now Tyrant of Argos + 

Pylades, son of Strophios, King of Phôkis, friend to Orestes + 

The Old Nurse of Orestes + 

A Slave of Aigisthos + 

Chorus of Bondmaids in the House of Clytemnestra and Aigisthos + 