There they respectively married Tyndareus's daughters Clytemnestra and Helen. Of his over 90 plays, only six have survived; the authorship of a seventh, Prometheus Bound, is in question.
[4], Clytemnestra after the murder of Agamemnon (, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agamemnon_(Seneca)&oldid=950368759, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 April 2020, at 18:38. In his response to her he pretends he is a stranger and tells Clytemnestra that he (Orestes) is dead, causing her to send for Aegisthus.
The herald replies that the king’s ships disappeared into the distance and everyone hopes for his safe return and by the will of Zeus he will arrive home safely. Menelaus succeeded Tyndareus in Sparta, while Agamemnon, with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus and Thyestes to recover his father's kingdom.
01 Oct 2020. She tells the chorus that she is cursed because her prophecies can never be believed.
Aegisthus took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with Thyestes.
sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. [3] Agamemnon has only a relatively minor role in Seneca's play, compared with Clytemnestra and Cassandra who have large parts.
She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, Electra by Sophocles and Electra by Euripides. Wasson, Donald L. "Agamemnon (Play)."
Profoundly religious and a strong proponent of Athenian democracy, he fought at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE where his brother was killed. The joy I have to tell you outruns all hope. hy:Ագամեմնոն Last modified September 18, 2018. Some Rights Reserved (2009-2020) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted. [6] Shortly after the reunion, both Orestes and Electra, influenced by the Chorus, come up with a plan to kill both Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis's equal in hunting.
From the Watchman's opening speech through the Chorus' foreboding words and Cassandra's prophesies, the drama prepares the audience for the King's murder.
Proteus (Πρωτεύς, Prōteus), the satyr play which originally followed the first three plays of The Oresteia, is lost except for a two-line fragment preserved by Athenaeus. After ten years of warfare, Troy had fallen and all of Greece could lay claim to victory.
Agamemnon has only a relatively minor role in Seneca's play, compared with Clytemnestra and Cassandra who have large parts. They relentlessly pursue Orestes for the killing of his mother. When he returns after an absence of ten years, he brings with him a concubine, Cassandra, the daughter of the fallen King Priam. It details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, from the Trojan War. Hesiod said she became the goddess Hecate.
It is easily seen as a principal motivator of the actions of almost all of the characters. He had sacrificed their eldest daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis so his ships could sail to Troy to retrieve the wife of his brother Menelaus. Agamemnon yells aloud; he has been struck. The play's mood carries a heavy sense of impending doom. Thematically, the murder of Agamemnon must be understood in the context of three other acts of violence, all of which precede the action of the play. Hadas emphasizes that other “crimes” occurred before the play begins. Agamemnon play by Aeschylus; part 1 of the Oresteia. Alan Sommerstein: Aeschylus Fragments, Loeb Classical Library, 2008, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/cgi/events/events.cgi?t=template&a=440, "An inexhaustible masterpiece is transformed into a glib anti-war morality play", "Ancient Greek tragedy Oresteia receives surprise West End transfer", "This Restless House five star review Zinnie Harris", "The Forgotten Pistolero Review by Korano", http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/oresteia-18-19/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oresteia&oldid=979196891#Agamemnon, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Articles needing additional references from January 2017, All articles needing additional references, Articles that may contain original research from January 2017, All articles that may contain original research, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Robert A. Johnston, 1955 – verse, an "acting version", Ethan Sinnott.
During the fighting, Agamemnon killed Antiphus and fifteen other Trojan soldiers.
She speaks of the past and the sins of the two brothers, the father and the uncle of Agamemnon. The queen’s lover (and her husband’s cousin) is also not without justification for his part in the murder, a murder he claims to have planned. [16] This then caused Clytemnestra pain and eventually anger which resulted in her plotting revenge on Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra. (94). Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms. [23] In 2015, Robert Icke's production of his own adaptation premiered at the Almeida Theatre and transferred to the West End. (Aeschylus does not praise or excuse Aegisthus; but his insiststance on presenting his case fairly ensures that the urgency of the central theme, What is justice? Later in life Pelops and his family line were cursed by Myrtilus, a son of Hermes, catalyzing the curse of the House of Atreus. He is the cruel and ruthless supreme king of Mycenae. He speaks of the Trojan horse, “the wooden monster that the Argive host till they made their fierce leap when the Pleiads set” (72). hu:Agamemnón
The chorus charges that she will pay for her crimes, but she then reminds them of the crimes of his family: This is Agamemnon, my husband, now a corpse, the work of this right hand, a righteous workman. She then orders maids to retrieve a purple cloth from his chariot, and spread it on the palace floor beneath his feet. . He seeks revenge for the exile of his father who had been served his own sons cooked in a stew prepared by Agamemnon’s father. Athena casts the deciding vote and determines that Orestes will not be killed. The city of Priam is in Argive hands. perhaps gave assistance to Menelaus and escaped with him, though he may have had difficulty in ensuring that they keep their hands off Helen"[14] The only extant fragment that has been definitively attributed to Proteus was translated by Herbert Weir Smyth as "A wretched piteous dove, in quest of food, dashed amid the winnowing-fans, its breast broken in twain. In Terry Gilliam's film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery. Clytemnestra is introduced to the audience and she declares that there will be celebrations and sacrifices throughout the city as Agamemnon and his army return.