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When was the Oresteia first performed?

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The Oresteia, a trilogy of tragic dramas by the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus, was first performed in 458 BCE. It stands as his final work and remains the only complete trilogy of Greek dramas to have survived from antiquity.12