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Is it a Greek tragedy: the father killed the eldest son, youngest son seeks revenge?

I was watching a gangster film, the other evening and the plot seems strangely familiar to me, but I could not place. Anyway, the eldest son of a gang leader kills member of the rival gang. The father wants to keep the peace with the rival gang to kill his own son. His younger brother secretly witnesses the murder and looks years before attack the rival gang. Father realizes that his son is his, so he asks his illegitimate son by his mistress to kill the other son.

It does not specifically match any of the surviving Greek tragedies, but closest I can think of this series of events is the Oresteia, a trilogy (actually four parts, but the fourth, a satyr play, is lost) by Aeschylus. The shading is more than ten years earlier, Agamemnon killed a stag was sacred to Artemis and boasted of being a better hunter. When ready to set sail to sack Troy with his brother, Menelaus, the kidnapping of the wife of Menelaus, Helen, Artemis prevented his ships to sail until sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. His wife, Clytemnestra, who witnessed the event. Thus, in the first part, Agamemnon, the character holds returns from the Trojan War. Clytemnestra is waiting for him to return, which allows it, and her lover, Aegisthus, can kill. They do, and openly admit to it. In the second part, Clytemnestra has enslaved the surviving daughter of Agamemnon, Electra, and sends him off to make libations at his tomb. There she meets his son Survivor, Orestes, who has just returned. The plot to kill two Clytemnestra and Aegisthus time under the sanction of Apollo because justice demands that their father be avenged. They do (well, Orestes does all the killing), and immediately after the start Furies torment him for the crime of killing his own mother (never mind he has done in the name of justice). In the third part, The Eumenides, the Furies continued to torment him until it is successfully defended in a trial which is chaired by Athena. Nobody dies of meaning in this piece. Euripides also wrote four plays (in this case, the first piece is the one that was lost) dealing with the same basic story, but still confused scenario Artemis has secretly pass Iphigenia with a deer right before Agamemnon had sacrificed her (how he has failed to notice this is never explained). After the trial took place, the Furies continued to torment Orestes, despite the results being in his favor, and they end up chasing him Tauris, where he eventually by being reunited with Iphigenia. It is possible that this is actually closer to one of the tragedies of Shakespeare, but I'm not as familiar with them outside the three basic works (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and the Scottish play). Regardless, between the Greek tragedies and Shakespeare, there is a many who fall in Everyone kills everyone in the class Revenge.

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