Oresteia

The Rutgers Theater Company’s production of An Oresteia, provided a contemporary view on greek theater. In a three part performance, the audience got an interesting point of view on each of the main characters. Most people think of greek theater as a long, boring, tragedy; however, the use of music, modern interpretation, and the actors talent helped to modernize the show. While some choices took the performance in a strange direction, the connections and relationships between the actors are…

Agamemnon suffers an untimely death by the hand of his dear wife, Clytemnestra in the first book, Agamemnon, of the trilogy, The Oresteia. He is very angered by this act of treason and would be likely to seek revenge upon Clytemnestra through his son, Orestes in the book Choephoroe part of the trilogy, The Oresteia. Agamemnon firmly believes people should be held responsible for their actions. Although, Agamemnon would still want Orestes to take revenge upon Clytemnestra, because Agamemnon…

Chronicling the fate of the House of Atreus - a bloodline destined to beget suffering and bleed until it is bled dry - the closing moments of Aeschylus’ Oresteia depict, more optimistically, the very best of what Aeschylus hoped society could be. Yet to ignore the issues of gender and sexuality - the binary opposition and conflicting gendering of its two female ‘heroines’ and their subsequent inversion of societal norms, for example - is to confine the text and its characters unnecessarily. It…

opens one’s eyes to the norms of a society and for the Greek city states texts such as The Iliad, Oresteia and other such works. During the time period of the city states there were radical ways of thinking. These ideas were shown in the historical books or texts, written either by philosophers or story tellers. In stories such as the Iliad, the culture is painted in a light of a war, and the Oresteia is in the light of a family conflict. These two stories shine a light on what the Greeks…

The son of the King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae. After Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War, he was killed by his wife and his cousin Aegisthus. Orestes, a young boy at the time of his father's murder was smuggled to safety by Electra, his sister and taken to stay with their father's old friend King Strophius of Phocis. Strophius raised Orestes with his son Pylades, they became close friends. Upon manhood, Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, since it was the best way to…

Thomas Professor Edmon Thomas Theatre 1030 001 31 August 2015 The Oresteia: Play Critiques Agamemnon Critique Plot: Argos has been living without its king for ten years. He doesn't think that Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, and Queen of Argos, is managing 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…

In the three plays of the Oresteia, we encounter the themes of justice, power, and retribution, being present in all the plots. The occurrence of these themes in the plays allows a clash head-on in a supposedly interminable cycle of bloodshed and violence. However, this cycle is broken in the last play, the Eumenides, with divine intervention and the establishment of a system of trial by jury. In this paper, I intended to discuss how these themes deepen our understanding of the primordial…

It influenced the culture and social economical relations. Aeschylus’ Oresteia is a story duscussing coming in being of Greek civic state . At one hand Oresteia as a tragedy endorses democracy and Orestes as an immediate ideal upholder of it but it also makes us realise how crucial it is to get rid of rulers like Clytaemmestra , Aegisthus and Agamemnon to establish…

Throughout the trilogy of plays, The Oresteia, one of the most prevalent themes is the contrast between justice and vengeance. Within the trilogy, there are many instances of this concept being referenced, and one of the most interesting parts of the play is the moral grey areas that the characters lie within. Clytaemnestra is one of the most intriguing examples of this moral grey area. She ignites the action within the play by concocting and acting upon a plan to murder her husband and allow…

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…