What is the strongest case for the claim that Clytemnestra has a legitimate grievance? Agamemnon goes to war‚ for ten years and sacrifices his daughter to gain favorable winds. Clytemnestra is left for ten years to mourn and think about her husband killing her daughter in order to win a war. When we think about punishment‚ we think about people being judged and justice being served. In this case‚ Clytemnestra acts as both the judge and the jury. The party found guilty and justice is an eye for
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the most powerful alliance against the Greeks * Agamemnon wants ‘the world’ all the land * Achilles has disappeared from the army. A boy goes to find him‚ * Achilles mother is goddess as can’t be killed (Contemp) * Nester persueds Achilles to fight the big guy because of Time. He can’t stand to lose his pride * Achilles‚ son of Paris * Achilles kills the big guy with one stab * There is a huge feast ‚ thrown by Agamemnon and Helen‚ to drink to peace‚ between troy and Sparta
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Homer’s Iliad With the assistance of Agamemnon and Achilleus‚ the Achaians were able to gain the victory over the Thebe. After the war ended‚ in order to honor Agamemnon and Achilleus‚ the Achaians equally distributed their prize‚ in addition‚ Chryseis for Agamemnon and Briseus’s daughter for Achilleus. However the father of Chryseis‚ who happened to be the priest of Apollo‚ came in to ransom back his daughter. But Agamemnon refused to give her back and drove him away. The priest was horrified
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understanding when confronting Agamemnon‚ however his deep-seated character flaws constantly hinder his ability to act with nobility and integrity constantly. He cannot control his arrogance or the rage that surges up when his pride is injured. This dislikable attribute of his causes him to abandoned his comrades and even pray that the Trojans will slaughter them‚ all because he has been insulted at the hands of his commander‚ Agamemnon. Like most Homeric
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The curse against the house and against man is represented differently in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon‚ Agamemnon’s ancestors did horrible acts on others that incurred the wrath of a curse upon their house. While in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus was sort of thrown into a tragic event that had nothing to do with him. The curse against both men is represented in varying ways. Starting with Agamemnon‚ the curse on his house starts even before the play begins with a curse thrust upon the house of Atreus who
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his trilogy‚ The Oresteia. The three plays‚ Agamemnon‚ The Libation Bearers‚ and The Eumenides outline how the way of life in the ancient Greek culture was being molded. In order to analyze the tragedy of the family of Agamemnon‚ one must know of the Curse of the House of Atreus‚ Agamemnon’s father. The Archaic Greeks believed that guilt was inheritable and that misfortune could be attributed to the crimes of a cursed ancestor (Ancient Orgins). Agamemnon shows the “old way” of justice. Law was divine
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Homer’s poem‚ The Iliad‚ the demi-god protagonist‚ Achilles‚ displays immense wrath against his fellow Achaian countrymen. Despite being angry at only Agamemnon‚ the army’s commander‚ moments beforehand‚ Achilles ultimately turns his resentment against all the Greek army and demands divine intervention against the Achaian troops. Initially‚ Agamemnon and his followers stripped away what was rightfully his‚ similarly to how Achilles’ believes his divine fate was taken by being born to a mortal man.
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like Achilles‚ when Agamemnon dishonored him. Achilles emotions affected the story‚ when Agamemnon dishonored him‚ he killed hector‚ and when he dishonored hector after his death. As I have said Achilles was dishonored by Agamemnon. Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Achaean (Greek) armies at Troy‚ and also the king of Troy. So Agamemnon had taken a woman named Chryseis as his slave. Her father Chryses‚ a priest of Apollo‚ begged Agamemnon to return her to him. Agamemnon refused and her father
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Agamemnon directly violates the heroic code that all the Greeks followed. This code had specific rules on who got what amount of prizes. Louis Markos states that the “more fiercely and bravely one fights‚ the more meeds of honor he will win.” The amount of
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Aristotle‚ a tragic hero is a character‚ usually of high birth‚ which is pre-eminently great‚ meaning they are not perfect‚ and whose downfall is brought about by a tragic weakness or error in judgment. The three Greek heroes Oedipus‚ Medea and Agamemnon‚ who each killed a member of their family‚ carry most of the qualities that make up a tragic hero: being of noble birth‚ being surrounded by an extraordinary circumstance‚ and gaining self-awareness or some kind of knowledge through their downfall
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