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Rh These plays (in the chronological order that seems most probable) are—

Of these three last plays, which form a consecutive whole, called a Trilogy, and yet are individually complete, the scene is Argos or Mycenæ: afterwards, the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: lastly, the Acropolis and Areopagus at Athens.

Of an Athenian Trilogy (i.e., a combination of three dramas by the same hand, whether on the same or different subjects, for consecutive presentment on the same day, and followed by a lighter play called a Satyric Drama), there