Aeschylus

In Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon, the dynamic, strong female character of Clytaemnestra is introduced. Left alone for ten years, she has become bitter after Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter, Iphigeneia, in order to sail to Troy. Clytaemnestra is waiting for her revenge. Clytaemnestra’s two speeches after Agamemnon has returned to Argos and is entering the palace reveal that she is convicting him of the murder of Iphigeneia and sentencing him to death. In Clytaemnestra’s first speech when…

Throughout history, many authors found ways to express their creative personality and thoughts by writing. Many individuals spoke their minds on current problems that are occurring in the world while others just write for fun. Throughout this paper, we will be discussing about two plays one written by Sophocles, Oedipus the King’, and the other being Hamlet written by William Shakespeare. Although these two plays are set in different time periods and authors as well as different outcomes, there…

Tantalus served his son Pelops to the Olympian god. In the Oresteia Aeschylus tells the story of Tantalus descendent Agamemnon. Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia "What can I say? Disaster follows if I disobey; surely yet worse disaster if I yield and slaughter my own child, my home 's delight, in her young innocence, and stain my hand with blasphemous unnatural cruelty, bathe in the blood I fathered! Either way, Ruin!" (Aeschylus: Agamemnon, 813-814). This shows that he knew that there…

Many people today and in the past are familiar with the term “guilty or innocent”. This common idea of justice is what many feel needs to be followed if someone is to commit a crime. The play, The Oresteia by Aeschylus, contains question in this idea by featuring a character named Clytemnestra who does something controversial and receives a questionable or unquestionable punishment depending on one’s opinion. Clytemnestra puts forth many controversial actions throughout the story, mainly in the…

Within unit 4 Aeschylus’ Agamemnon tells a tale about men and women. As mentioned before Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra. She declared that she killed her husband to avenge Iphigenia, who was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Agamemnon set out…

all possibility of sailing to Troy and risk further punishment by the goddess? Aeschylus creates an extremely difficult scenario for Agamemnon that allows the reader to empathise with the king of Argos. There are two conditions impelling him; the prospect of success in preserving the pride of his people, and the law of prophecy. However, I think Agamemnon could have exercised his free will to spare…

To the extent of this class so far, we have had the opportunity to read the book titled, The Complete Aeschylus: Volume 1: The Oresteia: 1, but more specifically the story of Agamemnon, the Greek Warrior King. The story of Agamemnon’s homecoming is one for the ages. To give you an idea of just how many Achaeans were involved in the war, 1,000 ships had set sail to Troy. Each ship held between 300-400 people. In quest of Troy, Artemis, who was a great goddess, halted the wind and demanded that…

Within Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis, and Seneca’s Medea, a variety of atrocious acts take place, sparing no violence and certainly no mercy. Although Seneca and Euripides hail from much different time periods, many parallels can be drawn between the atrocious acts depicted within their works. While the scenarios that lead up to the atrocious acts that take place within Medea and Iphigenia at Aulis differ, many similarities can be found between both antagonists. In addition to the similarities,…

Sophocles’ Oedipus the King presents the tragic story and life of the once highly acclaimed king named Oedipus. During the time the drama was produced, the Greeks were fascinated with the idea of a “tragic hero”—a man whose greatness and power eventually caused the downfall of the character. In Oedipus the King, the chorus served as one of the most important characters in relaying this ironic idea. The chorus was a specialized group of up to 50 men who danced and animated specific scenes during…

Sophocles is the great Greek dramatist, who gave us one of the most delightful works of human civilization - the tragedy of "Oedipus Rex". The plot revolves around a man standing, defining the topic of the tragedy - the theme of moral self-identity. The social standard is the understanding of individuals of what can impact our conduct in the everyday premise. Social standards in the public eye are tenets which, are known as the not talked but rather, learned them when you went amiss the govern…