Aeschylus

Bring Me My Battle Axsignment A Character Critique of Clytemnestra in “Agamemnon” by Aeschylus The Greek tragedy “Agamemnon” is the first play in Aeschylus’s trilogy “Oresteia”. It follows King Agamemnon’s return to Argos and his vengeful demise at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra (referred to as Cly). Cly is the Queen of Argos, daughter of KIng Tyndareus, wife of King Agamemnon (referred to as Aga) and sister of Helen. During the Trojan War, while Aga was gone, Cly played the role of a regent…

The theatre began when the ritual played a role in the development of drama in the days of early people. The ancient societies used ritual to represent their understanding of the human condition and of the world around them . The ritual had a religious purpose, and instructive purpose. It was also a form of entertainment. There were common elements found in ritual such as music, dance and mask and costume. In the early years of the fifth century B.C, Greek literature, theatre, and culture…

“Myths Presented by the tales of the Gods” . The tragedy of “Prometheus Bound” by Aeschylus discusses the story of Prometheus’s punishment for providing the human race with fire. According to Cupitt, “ a myth is “typically a tradition sacred story of anonymous authorship and archetypal or universal significance which is recounted in a certain community … it tells of the deeds of superhuman beings such as gods” (Maurizio 14). In the tragedy, we observe the Greek deity Prometheus being punished…

whereas Orestes and Apollo represent the new democratic law and are depicted as being on the side of the light, the civilised and the ‘just’. However, the competition between these ideals is not as simple as a battle of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ – Aeschylus represents two very different kinds of justice at play. In Agamamnon, Clytemnestra betrays her husband and…

In his play, “Persians,” Aeschylus depicts the Persian defeat at the Battle of Salamis as a result of the Persians’ confidence in their own numbers that caused them to underestimate the Greeks and their military skills and the hubris of Xerxes that arises from viewing himself equal to a god, which contributes to the Persian god bringing about the downfall of the army at the Battle of Salamis. Herodotus also shows the superiority of Persian military numbers and how the overconfidence in those…

the poets and tragedians in ancient Greece. Although they lived in similar areas and eras, writers of Greek mythology had different perspectives on the definition and enforcement of justice in their time. Readers see in The Libation Bearers that Aeschylus believes the gods have an active role in administering justice, done so in the form of revenge, which outweighs any problems brought to society. In contrast, Sophocles is unsure of who should enforce justice but comes to the realization that it…

introduction of a civic legal processes. The Oresteia is a three book trilogy of dramas by the ancient Greek writer Aeschylus. The first play from the oresteia was performed in 458 BC. The Oresteia itself is complex story about the Athena’s legal system, and how it came to be in Ancient Greece. The Oresteia is one of the last well known ancient dramas which was written by Aeschylus I well…

Zeus is a character that rules the way he wants to and is angry with the humans. Zeus had two servants that held Prometheus to a mountain in Caucasus. Zeus makes them all against Prometheus for all the wrong he has done like fire to human beings. Aeschylus presented Prometheus as a strong cold hearted god with no sympathy. His overall significant was stealing…

In the three plays of the Oresteia, we encounter the themes of justice, power, and retribution, being present in all the plots. The occurrence of these themes in the plays allows a clash head-on in a supposedly interminable cycle of bloodshed and violence. However, this cycle is broken in the last play, the Eumenides, with divine intervention and the establishment of a system of trial by jury. In this paper, I intended to discuss how these themes deepen our understanding of the primordial…

Beware the hell-hounds of a mother's curse!" (Aeschylus 333). Here, she asks incredulously if Orestes actually will kill his own mother, and she then warns him to beware of a mother’s curse as he will be tormented by hell-hounds. This was later confirmed not to be an empty threat when he alone could perceive monsters approaching him and exclaimed, "Or. To me they are no fancies—only too clear— / Can you not see them?—hounds of a mother's / curse!" (Aeschylus 338). In saying this, Orestes…