Agamemnon?

Question

what do ppl know about Greek plays, the Greek theater, and the staging of the plays. is there anything for to learn from the story of Agamemnon? What is the theme? Does it have any relevance for the modern audience?

Answer 1

The story of Agamemnon was the great soap classic of ancient Greece. Here we have a man who leads an army of conquest to regain his kid brother's wife (Helen of Troy) after she runs off with another man.

To get a wind in the ships' sails, he gets his wife to send his daughter, promising to marry her to Achilles. Instead, he slaughters her to honor the gods.

Then he is gone for 10 years, and comes home with a beautiful princess as his slave/concubine. His wife, who has been mad at him for the past 10 years, kills the princess, stabs him in the bathtub, and is in turn murdered by her own son Orestes.

That is a very brief synopsys. "Days or Our Lives" has no trick which you won't find in Greek theater.

Answer 2

Yes, I think that Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra because he raped her sister Helen(of troy) and further more brought a new wife Cassandra, back with him when he returned home from the trojan war.

Answer 3

Theme:  ancestral curse that results in violence:one act of violence leads to another.

Overall Analysis

Agamemnon is the first play in a trilogy, the Oresteia, which is considered Aeschylus' greatest work, and perhaps the greatest Greek tragedy. Of the plays in the trilogy, Agamemnon contains the strongest command of language and characterization. The poetry is magnificent and moving, with skillful portrayal of major and minor characters alike.

The first significant violent development in the play is the theft of Helen and the Trojan War that followed; again and again, the Chorus declares that even the deaths following the conflict should be dropped at Helen's door. The second violent act is Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia, which justifies Clytemnestra's resolve to murder him. Perhaps the most vile display of violence is the terrible sin of Agamemnon's father, Atreus, who cooked his own brother's children and served them to him. This act justifies Aegisthus' role in the play. But in a broader sense, it is the source of the ancestral curse that pervades the trilogy, as one act of violence leads to another.

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