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    The Iliad Script

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    Presenting the Casts: Abadines‚ Jessica T. Acosta‚ Krizelle Nhorilyn V. Alaan‚ Pauline Joy D. Amorin ‚ Anne Marielle C. Arcebuche ‚ Princes Diane M. Arellano‚ Axel Russel M. Basilio‚ John Benedict P. Group 1 Scene 1: Introduction of Troy Narrator: (she will look around) Hello? (then the voice will echo) the echo will be the signal for the coming of the troops Narrator: (when the armies had already come) What the ?! STOP! * Everyone will look at her bewitched by her presence. * She will

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    Supplication in the Iliad

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    poem‚ when Chryses‚ the priest of Apollo‚ begs for Agamemnon to return his daughter; the scene between Andromache and Hector in book six‚ the scene between the Achain leaders and Achilles in book nineteen and late in the story‚ when Priam begs for his son’s body. In the Iliad‚ all of the supplications fail with the exception of one. The first scene occurs at the very beginning of Book One‚ and in effect gets the whole thing underway. Agamemnon has captured a girl‚ Chryseis‚ the daughter of the

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    Commodification in Ilad

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    argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over Briseis‚ who was considered a war prizeThey brought back the spoils and divided them equally among the warriors. Agamemnon’s prize was Chryseis‚ the daughter of a priest of the god Apollo. Achilles’ reward was a maiden named Briseis. Both women were taken against their will. Unfortunately for Agamemnon‚ Chryseis’ father begged for his daughter to be released and offered huge amounts of treasures as ransom. In return‚ Agamemnon took Briseis‚ Achilles prize

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    greatest military prowess of any of the Achaean ranks. The only downfall for Achilles is that his inner force is driven by rage and proves to be devastating to his Achaean comrades. In the first book of the “Iliad”‚ Achilles pride was hurt when Agamemnon takes Achilles prize‚ Briseis‚ from him after Agamemnon’s prize‚ Chryseis‚ was demanded back from the Greek god Apollo. This began the rage inside Achilles and with this he refused to continue fighting with the Achaean army and took his men back

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    Orestes an Innocent Hero

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    Clytaemnestra and his cousin Aegisthus kill Agamemnon‚ the king of Argos‚ it is up to his long lost son Orestes‚ to avenge his death. To the people of Argos and the house of Atreus‚ Orestes was an innocent hero in yet another chess game played by the gods. Deep into the first story of “The Oresteia‚” better known as “Agamemnon‚” Cassandra‚ who has been cursed by Apollo to be a seer who will never be believed‚ envisions the death of Agamemnon and herself. It is in this vision

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    Troy Versus Homers Illiad

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    Achaean (Greek) army raiding the town of Chryse and taking two women‚ Chrysies and Briseis. Agamemnon claims Chrysies and Achilles claims Briseis. Neither however counted the fact that Chrysies’ father‚ Chryses was a Priest of Apollo. After Chryses offers a huge reward for the return of his daughter and Agamemnon refuses he then prays to Apollo who in return sends a Plague upon the Achaean camp. Agamemnon consults the prophet and learns he must return his prize but in return he demands Briseis. Once

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    of female roles. Homer’s Klytaimnestra represents the scheming devil archetype. As is recapitulated in The Odyssey‚ Klytaimnestra’s husband‚ Agamemnon‚ is gone for years fighting the Trojan War‚ while Klytaimnestra sits alone at home‚ bored. She is expected to be chaste and perfectly faithful to her husband for all those years‚ even though Agamemnon is socially permitted to take a mistress‚ Kassandra‚ without any sort of uproar. Klytaimnestra‚ however‚ has sexual needs which Agamemnon’s absence

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    Troy Film Review

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    Sparta‚ ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. When Paris steals Helen away from her husband‚ King of Menelaus‚ it is an insult that cannot be suffered. Familial pride dictates that an affront to Menelaus is an affront to his brother. Agamemnon‚ the powerful King of the Mycenaean’s‚ who soon unites all the massive tribes of Greece to steal Helen back from Troy in defense of his brother’s honor. This action packed movie is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat up until the end credits

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    sway audience’s emotions to feel the way the characters felt‚ to fill in the audience of what has happened in the past and give in sight of what will happen in the future‚ and to play the part of the "people" speaking as one being in society. In Agamemnon the Greek chorus’s role is huge‚ consisting of almost half the lines in the entire play. The Greek chorus fills the audience in on what has happened‚ the past and displays the action of the entire piece to the audience. The story of Agamemnom tells

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    Suffering and Aeschylus

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    In the first play of Aeschylus’s Oresteia‚ Agamemnon‚ the statement is made by the chorus: "Zeus‚ who laid it down that man must in sorrow learn and through pain to wisdom find his way" (Agamemnon‚ 84-86). This statement is a central theme throughout the Agamemnon and Aeschylus seems to be implying that wisdom comes only through suffering. Suffering is possibly the most effective tool for attaining wisdom. It is‚ however‚ not the only modality through which wisdom can be attained and there are

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