Iphigenia

man who brought one thousand ships to Troy, the man who led the army to the defeat of the Trojans, and the King of Argos. But, throughout all that he took drastic measures to get his army to Troy this action was the sacrifice of his own daughter Iphigenia to please a God. Though, he may have pleased the god in that instance he knew it would lead to his demise little did he know the monster he had created was his own wife. Clytemnestra Agamemnon’s wife is very complex and while reading the story…

home, he brings along Cassandra who he captures as a slave from Troy. He is characterized as being a fierce leader who puts the polis, city-state, before oikos, his individual house, and this is represented through the sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods in order to stop the storm; “Should I desert the fleet and fail my allies?” (10) This decision unravels Agamemnon’s marriage and Clytemnestra turns her anger into revenge by planning her husband’s death. She is described by the…

and her brother Orestes wanting to get revenge on their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, for killing their father Agamemnon. The events that led to the actions in this play was Clytemnestra killing her husband, to avenge her daughter Iphigenia, Agamemnon and his concubine Cassandra after they returned from the Trojan War. The play’s setting unlike Sophocles’ does not take place entirely in their palace in Argos but on a farm. Euripides takes a more realistic and morbid approach to…

Sarah and Clytemnestra are both highly influential characters in the narratives of their respective stories. Sarah is responsible for bearing Abraham’s children and continuing his line. Clytemnestra is the treacherous queen who kills her husband in an act of revenge that sets in motion the events of the next two plays. Rather than portraying damsels in distress or flawless maidens, these women are flawed. Both women act in questionable ways. Sarah laughs at God and shows doubt that he will help…

The story of Odysseus, from “The Odyssey” by Homer, is a classic known by many worldwide. In this book we find Odysseus going through many hardships before finally getting back to his hometown in Ithaca. What helped him go through these hardships is the though of getting back to his family, his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope. “Agamemnon” written by Aeschylus, is a tragic story whose main character, Agamemnon, undergoes a chain of events that are both similar and different from each other.…

We all have similar and contrasting views on justice, what it is, when it is needed on our side, and how it can be achieved. These views, however, may conflict with each other. Some of us may accept certain circumstances as a part of our daily life, such as the female, while others may argue against them and raise their pitchforks and torches blazing brightly comparable to their righteousness. In the latter scenario, to what extent should we let that righteousness control our actions before we…

A sacrifice and prayer, such as what Chryses did in the text was the most common way to appease or communicate to the gods for humans. In another Greek myth, Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis before he sets sail for Troy. It was common for ancient religions to involve sacrifices, such as Judaism and the religion of the Mesopotamians. The Greeks believed that the smell of the burning meat would appease and please the gods, while the Israelites believed it…

The house of Atreus was also cursed to such a fate when 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…

Sophia Vietti Ms. Hickey Latin II May 18th 2018 The oresteia and the Athenian legal system The Oresteia, an Ancient Greek manuscript, is a follow up of the book The Iphigenia and follows Agamemnon’s wife, Queen Clytemnestra, 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…

Greek Mythology was the worship of gods and goddesses by the Greeks. The Greeks believed that these gods or goddesses had supernatural powers. They lived on Mount Olympus where the top god named Zeus sat on his throne. The Greeks believed in myths that talked about these gods and goddesses using supernatural powers. One of the myths was a woman named Artemis. Artemis, the goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon, and natural environment, wanted to live forever; but the Bible says,…