Aegisthus

Agamemnon isn’t vindicated because she holds a grudge against Agamemnon for having no choice but to kill their daughter, tricked Agamemnon into acting like a god to feel justified in her decision to murder him, and cheated on Agamemnon with his cousin Aegisthus. Clytemnestra’s anger against Agamemnon all comes from the fact Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia. However, Agamemnon had no choice but to sacrifice Iphigenia or face the wrath of Zeus, so Clytemnestra has no right to be…

hand Oresteia as a tragedy endorses democracy and Orestes as an immediate ideal upholder of it but it also makes us realise how crucial it is to get rid of rulers like Clytaemmestra , Aegisthus and Agamemnon to establish law and order in the society.This shift from rulers like Clytaemnestra ,Agamemnon and Aegisthus to Orestes itself demonstrates the shift towards a Democratic Athens.The necessity of this shift is explicit in Chorus’s…

encouraged. Agamemnon did not have a real motive to kill his own daughter, he loved her. This makes it evident that he truly believed that he did the right thing in taking his daughter’s life; he did not abuse the will of the gods as Clytemnestra and Aegisthus…

The curse of Atreus is said to be passed down through generation originating with Tantalus, king of Lydia. Tantalus was a hubris king who wished to test the god’s all-knowing ability. In order to test this ability, Tantalus killed his son Pelops serving him to the gods as dinner. The gods knew of this occurrence and were outraged by this test. They restored Pelops life and sentenced Tantalus to the underworld to be tortured for eternity. After Pelops was resurrected he married and had many…

featured message throughout both texts. They highlight 2 possible courses of action of anyone in that situation of tragedy and betrayal. In Electra’s case, the audience see the consequences of revenge acted in haste and reactively. When she killed Aegisthus, this act was justified to the people as he was the catalyst and reason for her father’s death. However, when she took to her own mother’s life, the citizens of … strongly disapproved of this as it was unnatural for someone to kill a parent…

In the context of Greek mythology, humans have little to no control over their fates. That knowledge and controls lies with the gods. Often times the characters of myths go to the oracles looking for a bit of guidance only to be delivered a cryptic message about a big event relevant to their lives. For example, Oedipus in Oedipus Tyrannus sends Creon to the oracle to get answers about the plague that racks Thebes, he is told that he must find the old king Laius’ murderer, Creon says “Then hear…

husband’s death. She is described by the watchman as a “woman in passionate heart and man in strength of purpose” (11). Clytemnestra takes pride in killing her husband and has full control of her actions which shows us her “manly” qualities. Compared to Aegisthus, Clytemnestra’s gender role is inverted with her being in charge of the house as well as luring Agamemnon to his fall with her deceitful and cunning personality; “deception is clearly a woman’s work” (64). She possesses factors from…

The Odyssey, by Homer, is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature. It focuses on Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, and his journey home from the Trojan War. Through this story, Homer illuminates aspects of Ancient Greek culture, one major aspect being misogyny. Today, in 21st Century America, the misogyny is especially evident in The Odyssey due to the awareness that has been brought to women's rights over the past 200 years. Misogyny is exposed through the way men discuss the…

Phillip Vellacott translated four plays by Euripides articulately in Medea and Other Plays. Each of the plays in Medea and Other Plays, Euripides portrayed the duel sides of the greatness of Athens, in which Athenians in their actions were the opposite of their aspirations, cruel yet generosity, dishonest yet cruel truthfulness, revengeful yet honored justice. Three of the plays look to Athens for redemption while they are set in other cities: Medea in Corinth, Electra in Argos, and Heracles…

He spoke about the well-known ones and the silliness that individually suffer under their own hands. Aegisthus, cousin of Agamemnon committed infidelity with Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, and then helped her to kill Agamemnon. He lived on to explain how Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then killed Aegisthus and his mother to avenge his father’s death and all this could have been avoided if he will have taken the notice that Hermes gave him in advance all…