I've been going through [b:The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens|36236155|The Oresteia Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens|Aeschylus|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1510349677l/36236155._SX50_.jpg|2378], [b:An Oresteia|4770925|An Oresteia|Anne Carson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312074533l/4770925._SX50_.jpg|84600574], and other facets of the story. Now, last, I've gotten to Euripides version. In many ways this was my favorite version. I loved how Orestes was reluctant to kill his mother and Electra pushed him into it. I loved how compelling the argument was from Clytemnestra for sparing her life (more compelling than the emotional appeal of displaying her breast in Aeschylus's version) and how Euripides more effectively shifts perspectives and sympathies than other versions do. I loved the sly ways in Euripides made fun of the previous versions, like the idea that Orestes footprints or hair would be recognizable decades later, something that felt dramatic and exciting when I first read it but is obviously preposterous. And perhaps best was the way in which Apollo seems to be wrong in his command to Orestes to kill his mother and Orestes realizes it, pushes back, but does it anyway. All around, this play felt fresh, alive and exciting to me.