Aegisthus

Instead, Aegisthus is led inside the palace by Orestes, and although his intention is clear, it is not physically carried out. This suggests that the story is not over and leaves the reader with questions. Had Orestes appeared on stage once again with the murdered body of Aegisthus, emerging victorious, there would be little room for doubt, but instead the play concludes before a crucial act, leaving…

leading to acts of vengeance against each other. For example, Agamemnon came back from the war to find that his wife had married Aegisthus, a coward who stayed behind while the others fought in the war. With her approval, Aegisthus kills Agamemnon and would have taken over his kingdom if not for Agamemnon’s son, Orestes. Orestes returns from exile and kills both Aegisthus and his mother to avenge his father. His act of bravery and courage to defend his father’s honor is continually praised by…

(1707-08). Power is not something that women have or even expect to have during this time period. She is demonstrating how she considers herself more dominant, and not some who is willing to be controlled. Even more, Clytaemnestra does not state that Aegisthus will have more power because he is a man, implying that she sees herself just as capable as any man. Also, she speaks about the war at Troy with such assurance that she sounds like a man. The chorus leader said she is, “Spoken like a man,…

[Theseus’] son by her tricks but still she persuaded [Theseus]” (Euripides 2001: 55). Moreover, in The Odyssey, Clytemnestra causes an “outrage she committed, killing the man she married once” (Homer 1997: 474) in order to be able to be with her lover Aegisthus. Athena also plans for the destruction of men. She disguises herself as mentor and uses Telemachus and Odysseus to create a battle. Overall, women in ancient Greece were portrayed as destructive and deceitful beings who plot against men…

revenge against their mother, the pain she went through to develop as a character and the strength she acquired from the hardship of her life. First of all, Electra saved young Orestes by sending him away from their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. The couple was responsible for the murder of Agamemnon, the father of Electra and Orestes. Paedagogus stated: “I rescued you, entrusted by your sister's hand” (Sophocles, Electra 13).This event gave Orestes a chance to grow up and to…

Clytemnestra, depicted in Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon, and Medea in Euripides' play of the same name. Clytemnestra, wife to Agamemnon, is a wife left behind while her husband seeks war against Troy. Taking comfort in the company of a new lover, Aegisthus, see plots her husband's death while he is away. When Agamemnon finally returns after ten years he is greeted with pretended loyalty, but is later met with a net and ax as his wife finds vengeance in his death. Plotting the death of her husband…

Clytemnestra the mother of Orestes killed her husband Agamemnon with help of her paramour Aegisthus. She saw the ghost of her husband, and that was an ominous in the Greek traditions. Her son Orestes then had a plan, in which he called his mother as a foreign from Daulis sent by Strophius in a disguise to Argos, to tell her that Orestes had died in a chariot’s accident, on the event she persistently has sent her lover Aegisthus for information about Orestes. Orestes had caught him and slayed…

left with Menelaus and that Odysseus decided to stay back with Agamemnon. Then I asked him about Agamemnon’s fate, and he explained to me that he had returned back from Troy and found that Aegisthus married Clytemnestra, which was his wife. Aegisthus is a coward that stayed back while the Greeks fought. Then Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon, with Clytemnestra’s approval. Then he sent his son Pisistratus to come with me to Sparta. I then find out that Mentor is Athena, who turned into an eagle and…

and needed calm wind to sail there. The only way that he believed he could get that was by sacrificing is daughter Iphigenia. But, almost as a punishment for killing his daughter, when he returned home was killed by Aegisthus on command of his own wife. “Agamemnon, killed by Aegisthus’ cunning - his own wife.” The Odyssey Book 3, Stanza…

Heroines in a Patriarchal Society For many years, there has always been an equality gap between males and females. Males being the more revered and desired gender, while females were the more disregarded gender, as they were forced to the mundane house work. Researchers have studied and learned how family dynamics work throughout history, with their research including archaeology, documents, and literature. In the 5th century, this sense of patriarchal dominance was no different in…