Aeschylus

exactly what a tragedy is and the origins of where it came from. The second section will discuss the three great playwrights of Greek tragedy and the effect that they have individually and as a whole on the art form of tragedy. It will start with Aeschylus as one of the first playwrights of tragedy. We…

expounded on some problems. During the period then, three major Greek tragedies occurred and had taken a dominant position in understanding ancient history. They constitute the Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. These three marked the new beginning in the play industry as change has progressively occurred over the centuries. The Aeschylus is one of the most refined artefacts which integrated the second actor within one set of play. Before his entry, a play…

na Djunisijevic Prof. Klaassen CLCV 2010A March. 14th, 2018. The Portrayal of Revenge as a Mean of Preservation Seeking vengeance is one of the central themes in Agamemnon and The Medea. Both Euripides and Sophocles explore human nature by examining the human psyche. In the two plays, Clytemnestra and Medea are vengeful and ruthless in their pursuit of justice because of the disloyalty wrought upon them by their male partners Agamemnon and Jason. By preserving themselves through actions of…

Sophia Vietti Ms. Hickey, Latin 4-20-18 2nd Hour, Latin II The oresteia and the Athenian legal system The Oresteia, an Ancient Greek manuscript, is a follow up of the book “The Iphigenia” and follows his wife, Queen Clytemnestra’s, murder of Agamemnon after the Trojan war. The story of the Oresteia is a long Greek play made to explain the new Athenian legal system supposedly made by the goddess Athena in the third act of the play. The main idea of the Oresteia is that injustice and…

in this particular piece, two women stole the spotlight. The characters Cassandra and Clytemnestra were used to portray Agamemnon’s character. Clytemnestra gave a very different view of Agamemnon than Cassandra did. It is hard not to wonder why Aeschylus would choose such an unordinary context. Throughout the city of Argos Clytemnestra is seen as a very loyal, dutiful wife. It is easy to believe that she did fall under this profile.…

the modern vision of the Greek tragedy of Orestaie by Aeschylus. The two plays rely on the Eumenides. Such background may not totally matches Eliot’s content and age. The furies to be used in the setting of drama of the modern drawing room, this seems little clumsy but the playwright has managed to use such furies in his play and brought some powerful effects of suspicion and fear on the gathering of a family.The use of the chorus in Aeschylus is done by a group of captive women while the chorus…

The Oresteia tells the story of a killer getting killed, the killer of this killer getting killed, and the killer of that killer finally going to court instead of being killed. Aeschylus presents it in this matter to show the absurdly long chain of killings, among other problems, caused by the former system of justice. For the final killer, however, he presents a new system and shows its superiority. The justice shown in the beginning of The Oresteia matches the system in Homer’s Iliad nearly…

the eternal love Demeter has for her daughter, but also the loyalty she has towards Persephone as throughout this whole time she had been disobeying and displeasing the Olympian gods, but still chose to be on the side of her daughter. Written by Aeschylus, Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the murder of the Greek hero Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra. The second and third play in the trilogy, Libation Bearers and Eumenides (respectively),…

The outcome of this trial characterized the city of Athens to be unreasonable. Orestes, who murdered his own mother was proven not guilty. The votes were equal for both sides, resulting in Athena having the vote that would be the final verdict. In Apollo’s defense for reasoning as to why Orestes killing his mother was acceptable was “The mother of what is called her child is not the parent, but the nurse of the newly-sown embryo. The one who mounts is the parent, whereas she, as a stranger for a…

The Furies represent the old gods and the ancient laws of Greece. Apollo represents the new gods of Greece, and a new notion of justice. In reference to the Furies’ ancient beliefs, Apollo states that “Justice and bloody slaughter are the same” (Aeschylus 239). Apollo hopes for Orestes freedom, and he does not want the bloody cycle of violence and retribution to continue. Apollo gets his wish when Orestes seeks the help of Athena, the daughter of Zeus. Athena realizes that Orestes’s case is not…