Posted by Jarrod Leist on September 18, 19101 at 13:49:40:
In Reply to: Re: Women in the ancient world posted by Gumbo_G aka DJ Word on December 16, 19100 at 22:35:20:
: : How is the role of women portrayed in Aeschylus' Agamemnon? What virtues, vices, qualities ect.. are attributed to them?
: Is should be obvious.
: The Agememnon, the first of the Oresteia Triology,
: begins more after the fall of Troy and Agamemnon's
: seizure of Candra, the daugher of Priam
: and priestess of Apolloa.
: The Agamemnon describes how Clytaemnestra kills
: her husband for the death of their daughter and
: the insult of Candra, and establishes herself
: and Aeigisthus, her paramour and also the avenger
: of his father, a rulers over Argos.
: Agamenmon became the commander-in-chief of the
: Greek forces that attacked Troy to avenge the
: seduction of Helen by Paris, son of Priam.
: At the outset of the expedition, Agamemnon had
: to sacrifice his and Clytaemnestra's daughter
: Iphigenieia.
: Agamemnon was a son of Atreus and inherited the
: realm of Argos and married Clytaemnestra, daughter
: of Tyndareos.
: The house of Atreus is founded by
: Tantalus of Lydia. Tantalus' son, Pelop was the
: father of Atreus.
: Atreus banished his brother for seducing his wife.
: Atreus feasted the banished brother on the flesh
: of the brother's children.
: Similarly, the grandfather Tantalus, feasted
: the gods on Pelop's flesh.
: Orestes, the son of Clytaemnestra and Agamnenon.
: After Orestes is acquitted in Athena's (Apollo's
: sister) court of law, the Areopagus, Athena
: persuades the Furies (female entities of the
: primitive vendetta law) to become benevolent
: patrons.
: Chorus of Furies HYMN TO JOY: let us rejoice, the
: spirit of man has triumphed over the harsher
: elements of life.
READ THE GREAT BOOKS
TERM PAPERS, RESEARCH PAPERS, ESSAYS