Aegisthus

Text 2: Vergil’s Aeneid, book 2.279-297 Vergil’s textual source describes Aeneas’ encounter with Hector’s ghost during the siege on Troy who warns him that Troy has fallen and is held by the enemy. Vergil’s Aeneid focuses solely on Aeneas’ travels and then on the war of Troy. Vergil’s work has several poetic features used to create a very detailed scene. In this scene, Vergil uses first-person to show Aeneas’ emotional state during this encounter; allowing the reader to increase their sense of…

to warn Aegisthus about his plan to kill Agamemnon. Agamemnon eventually comes home from the war. When he arrives, he is unsuspecting of what is awaiting him at home. He also finds out that his loving wife has changed so much since he left for the war. Hermes’ first warning told Aegisthus to not “murder the man [or] court his wife” (1.47). Clytemnestra and Aegisthus succeed in killing Agamemnon, only to pay the ultimate price. These exact events perfectly mimic Hermes’ warning to Aegisthus that…

prominent being Clytemnestra and how she basically ruled the kingdom while Agamemnon was away fighting in the war, also killing Agamemnon and Cassandra herself, something women were not thought of to do. Also, especially according to the chorus, Aegisthus, Clytemnestra’s lover, does not confirm to his gender roles by letting Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon and Cassandra, instead of doing it himself. These are two people who went against the way things are in Greece; they committed what is called…

Agamemnon the first of three stories to one of the most brilliant Greek tragedies the story takes place right at the ending of the ten-year Trojan war and begins at the homecoming of the soldiers of Argos. Agamemnon is a war hero, he is a man who brought one thousand ships to Troy, the man who led the army to the defeat of the Trojans, and the King of Argos. But, throughout all that he took drastic measures to get his army to Troy this action was the sacrifice of his own daughter Iphigenia to…

However, Agamemnon’s wife was not quite as faithful to him as Penelope was to Odysseus, because she was having an affair with Aegisthus. Agamemnon was “killed by Aegisthus’ cunning—by his own wife” (Fagles 115). Aegisthus and Agamemnon’s wife decide to kill Agamemnon so that they may continue their affair. Eventually, Aegisthus is killed to avenge the death of Agamemnon. Aegisthus is the extreme example of improper hospitality while a man is away at war. Odysseus had to return disguised as a…

knew what stories he needed to tell Telemachus. The king of Pylos recalled and narrated the story of Agamemnon's demise and the vengeance of his son, Orestes. This epic digression describes that, upon returning home, Agamemnon was killed by Aegisthus. Aegisthus had an affair with Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra. Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, avenged his father. The entire purpose of the narration can be summarized…

In Greek mythology, gods are often seen as the source of all power; in the first four books of Homer’s Odyssey, this is quite evident. Zeus explicitly says, “From us alone, [the mortals] say, come all their miseries” (1.38). Because the gods control nearly every aspect of life, from the sea, to love, to the sky and thunder, the mortal characters of The Odyssey constantly blame the gods. Centuries ago, with the absence of scientific justifications for natural events, people had no other…

dangerous conditions scares her. In reality she doesn't want him to learn about her involvement with Aegisthus. When he finds out about his mother killing his father, he gets order from Apollo to kill her own mother. Orestes was warned by Apollo that he would suffer if he did not avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra. Filled with revenge Orestes avenges his father's death by killing both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. Telemachus- son of Odysseus and Penelope. His is not in the same…

The myth of Agamemnon and his son Orestes has impacted many different customs and actions of today’s society and culture. The main points of the story have connected through Ritual theories that are used today, the structural world and how it has changed from ancient times to modern times, and the allegories that are associated with the stories in this myth and how they relate to the comparisons that are used today. During the first play, Agamemnon returns back from the Trojan War and his wife…

Around 1250-1200 BCE in ancient Greece, trouble was brewing in the city of Argos, following the alleged Trojan War. Aeschylus’s The Oresteia depicts an ancient family’s struggle for vengeance and justice. Throughout The Oresteia, the descendants of brothers, Thyestes and Atreus, appear to have been in a seemingly ceaseless cycle of blood crimes in the name of vengeance. These descendants were constantly pursued by the wrathful Furies, which represent the ancient law system of Greece. The Furies…