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The chorus of Choephori has been considered as an example of a most active intervention in Aeschylus' theatre. First of all, their participation in the kommós, together with Agamemnon's descendants, is decisive for the awareness and realization of revenge. But even when the action implies the protagonism of the avenger, Orestes, and the chorus becomes above all a commentator, the successive stasima are a kind of mirror of each stage of the difficult process of matricide. Until remorse sets in, after a crime so desired, but so unbearable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]