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This event occurs in a Las Vegas hotel room in the first play in Neil LaBute’s collection Bash. The chorus describes a saffron robe falling to the ground during this event in the first stasimon of a play that claims it occurred under the “yoke of necessity” after two eagles killed a pregnant hare. Aristotle hated the abrupt change of mind that allows this event, (10[1])which is averted with (-5[1])the revelation of the maid Ériphile’s (10[1])(“eh-ree-FEEL’s”) birth name in Jean Racine’s adaptation. In a sequel to the play about this event, its subject (-5[1])gets (10[1])a job guarding a xoanon (10[1])(“ZOH-uh-non”) statue and killing (10[1])Greek visitors to the realm of King Thoas. The subject of this event is replaced (10[1])with a deer (10[1])and whisked off (10[1])to Tauris (10[5])in (10[1])a Euripides play (10[2])set in Aulis. (10[1])For 10 points, Aeschylus’s Clytemnestra avenges what event that was (10[1])ordered by Agamemnon (10[1])to allow the Greek fleet to sail for Troy? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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