Clytemnestra

In Aeschylus’ The Oresteia and Sophocles’ The Oedipus Cycles, the division between public and private life is related to the distinctions between man and woman and reason and emotion. Tragedy attempts to deal with these binaries by discussing the relationship between the state in combination and traditional gender divisions. In The Oresteia and The Oedipus Cycles, women have seemingly contradictory roles of power and influence, only to be marginalized by the dominant men of law and reason. These…

He must avenge his father but he cannot hurt his mother this makes him hesitant a first for his bloodline. Most of his blood would have automatically killed Clytemnestra but he hesitated showing he has a better character than his blood would say. He then goes to the oracle of Delphi who tells him from Apollo to kill the two who murdered his father. After he kills his mother he is haunted and chased by the Furies…

In the SGU’s latest theater department production Electra was seemingly themed in the 1970’s or 1980’s. The play had guns and cargo pants set in a war torn land. Although these drastic changes were made from the original play the storyline did not vary too much. The human experience was still revenge, finding and exacting it. This play did a great job of showing the pull between Electra and her sister Chrysothemis also Electra’s own struggle with insanity. What this play did best was show that…

Alcestis was the wife of King Admetus, a man who was allowed to live past the time of his death so long as he found someone to take his place. When the time came for the king to die, Alcestis agrees to sacrifice herself to spare her children from going fatherless. Euripides’s work begins just as Alcestis is about to die. In a heartfelt monologue before her passing, Alcestis only asks that her husband honor her memory by not taking another wife and bringing a stepmother into their children’s…

Women are the people who make up half the population, the people needed to produce other human beings, and yet looked at as inferior beings. Mythological women are shown in the way that society views women in general. They are usually split into two distinct groups, one is viewed as the bad woman and one is the ideal woman. Some women are viewed as old shrews who are cunning, ruthless, and bitter because of the tragedies they have lived. These characteristics are usually reserved for women who…

man. Lastly there is the wife of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, who cheats on him then teams up with her lover to kill him and rule his empire. Clytemnestra is included in the poem as the archetype of distrustful and unloyal wife and to be compared to the loyal Penelope. The part in the poem when Odysseus visits the underworld and sees Agamemnon after he is killed and Agamemnon tells him to pay close attention to women is used to enhance the point of Clytemnestra being a cheater and how the lack of…

the Swan” by William Butler Yeats, Leda is raped by the Greek God Zeus, who has transformed himself into a swan. The rape leads to the birth of four children, the two immortals, Castor and Pollux, and most importantly the two mortals, Helen and Clytemnestra, who one day have a great impact on what is now known as southeastern Europe. Though Leda’s rape may be seen as a small incident when compared to occurrences in the world, it results in the Trojan War, Agamemnon’s death and the ultimate…

Poseidon in it. This will explain the background of the story and help set the theme of the play. In Eumenides the play starts of prologue with Apollo and one of his priestess (Aeschylus’s Eumenides 1-55). The sets the stage for the whole play, that Clytemnestra set the Furies out to get justice against Orestes. In the Theseus play it will also set the stage by letting the audience know that Theseus has made the long and hard journey to Athens while completing the six labors after retrieving his…

Eumenides summary Atreus and Thyestes are competing for the throne of Argos. Thyestes seduced his brother’s wife and was driven out of Argos by his brother. When Thyestes returns he and his brother seem to be cool with each other. At least that’s what Thyestes thinks. Atreus looks to seek revenge for what his brother did. Atreus murdered the two sons of Thyestes, and had them chopped up and cooked to be served to their father at his honor banquet. When Thyestes finds out he has eaten his sons,…

The myth of Agamemnon and his son Orestes has impacted many different customs and actions of today’s society and culture. The main points of the story have connected through Ritual theories that are used today, the structural world and how it has changed from ancient times to modern times, and the allegories that are associated with the stories in this myth and how they relate to the comparisons that are used today. During the first play, Agamemnon returns back from the Trojan War and his wife…