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Oresteia 

| TV Mini-Series (1979– )
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3 episodes
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Tony Harrison's staging of the Aeschylus trilogy.

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 Aegisthus 2 episodes, 1979
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 Priestess of Apollo 2 episodes, 1979
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Tony Harrison's staging of the Aeschylus trilogy.

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