When Electra comes to the tomb, she makes a speech revealing that it was Clytemnestra who sent her and the slave-women to make the offerings. Orestes and Pylades take up positions in hiding to see what happens next. After he makes these offerings, Orestes sees his sister Electra coming up to the tomb of Agamemnon, along with a group of slave-women. Orestes cuts off two locks of his hair to make as offerings: he gives one as an offering to a river in Argos, and the other to the spirit of his father. Clytemnestra had help in her plot from Aegisthus they are now living together as lovers. Agamemnon was murdered by his own wife, Clytemnestra, who is also Orestes's mother. Orestes is accompanied by a friend, Pylades. Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, has come back home from exile to avenge Agamemnon's death. The play begins outside the Greek city of Argos, some years after the end of Agamemnon, Part 1of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy.
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