Iphigenia

things very well (103). Inciting Incident: The Watchman sees a signal fire announces that Agamemnon is coming home from the Trojan War, after his long period of absence (104). Exposition: To ensure safe travels Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. The siege of Troy lasted ten years. Finally the city fell and was sacked by the Greek army, its temples were destroyed (110) Foreshadowing: Cassandra reveals what took place at the palace in the past generation, when Atreus (Agamemnon's…

King Agamemnon. He had offended the goddess Artemis and she sent bad fortune to him. However, when he wanted to help fight at Troy and needed calm wind to sail there. The only way that he believed he could get that was by sacrificing is daughter Iphigenia. But, almost as a punishment for killing his daughter, when he returned home was killed by Aegisthus on command of his own wife. “Agamemnon, killed by Aegisthus’ cunning - his own wife.” The Odyssey Book 3, Stanza…

Biographical Information Venus lamenting the death of Adonis is a drawing designed by Benjamin West in the year 1768. He spent most of his time designing paintings such as this while in London. Description Venus Lamenting, the death of Adonis, is a drawing about Adonis, a mortal youth, as from the Ovid Metamorphoses. Venus was a mythological goddess who fell in love with him. They used to spend most of their time together hunting wild animals. He was slain while hunting and lay down on the…

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…

Chaos Theory claims that “something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. It may take a very long time, but the connection is real”(Wolfe). In “Leda and 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…

Sirs and Hers: Gender Roles in Greek Custom Reflected in Theater In most any piece of literature you read, especially those of ancient times, you are sure to see the real life culture surrounding it reflected in the work. Often times, this culture encompasses the gender roles that are (or were) imposed on and held so deeply by society. When we look at Agamemon by Aeschylus and Lysistrata by Aristophanes, we can see how gender roles are instrumental in making for either a comedy or a tragedy.…

The play that I selected was The Persians by Aeschylus translated by George Theodoridis copyright in 2009 with the rights reserved by Bacchicstage. The characters in this play include Xeres, who was the King of Persia at the time and is presented in the play as a dejected king who was responsible for the downfall of Persia because of his young rash decisions to go to war with the Greeks. When described by the ghost of his father, Darius, he is presented as a young king who would do anything to…

Aeschylus’s trilogy The Oresteia is a play of immense proportions, and at its heart it is a study of morality and the palpable tension of the competing ideas of dikē – justice or right. It depicts a societal change from one form of justice and law to another; from the law of the old gods to the law of the new. The third play in the trilogy, The Eumenides, depicts the culmination of this conflict, where all the individual conflicts reach their conclusions and the overarching themes of the trilogy…

Around 1250-1200 BCE in ancient Greece, trouble was brewing in the city of Argos, following the alleged Trojan War. Aeschylus’s The Oresteia depicts an ancient family’s struggle for vengeance and justice. Throughout The Oresteia, the descendants of brothers, Thyestes and Atreus, appear to have been in a seemingly ceaseless cycle of blood crimes in the name of vengeance. These descendants were constantly pursued by the wrathful Furies, which represent the ancient law system of Greece. The Furies…

sacrifices, justice, death, faith, and revenge [5]. One of the main characters, aggressive Clytemnestra is seeking revenge on her husband Agamemnon because he believed that in order acquire wind for the garden, he must sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia to the Artemis, “a goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon, and the natural environment [6].” This play is different from other writers during this time because it had three characters Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Cassandra, and in…