of Atreus and Aerope‚ brother of Agamemnon‚ king of Mycenae and‚ according to the Iliad‚ leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the War. Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey‚ Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy; the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus. Menelaus fought bravely at Troy‚ although he did not occupy as important a position as his brother Agamemnon‚ who was the commander-in-chief of
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After winning a previous battle‚ both Agamemnon‚ king of Mycenae‚ and Achilles‚ the greatest Greek warrior‚ capture a girl for themselves and to bring home with them. However‚ the men of Achaea force Agamemnon to give Chryseis‚ the girl Agamemnon captured‚ back to her father after he asks for her back. As a result‚ Agamemnon steals Briseis‚ the girl Achilles captured‚ from Achilles‚ Agamemnon pronounces‚ “But I‚ I will be there in person at your tent to take Briseis
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Clytaemnestra’s Composure and Orestes’ Regrets The justification scenes in Agamemnon and the Libation Bearers show that both Clytaemnestra and Orestes are able admit their decision of committing murder‚ but‚ while Clytaemnestra is able to maintain her composure‚ Orestes worries himself to the point of insanity‚ and he ends up regretting the whole thing. Clytaemnestra plans to kill Agamemnon from the moment he returns home. When he arrives‚ she treats him like a king‚ but‚ when he is not on his
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Achilles’ Wrath and the Plan of Zeus The Iliad 1 begins and ends showing people in a normal state‚ before and after the wrath of Achilles has precipitated the plan of Zeus. In this normal state‚ people are capable of acting rationally‚ using experience and wisdom to guide their behavior. However‚ during the main action of the Iliad‚ the wrath of Achilles and the plan of Zeus‚ people live in an extraordinary state of human/divine crisis‚ because human emotions have broken down those barriers which
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even exalted‚ rather than depressed. Characteristics An Aristotelian tragic hero must have four characteristics: 1. Nobleness (of a noble birth) or wisdom (by virtue of birth). 2. Hamartia (translated as tragic flaw‚ somewhat related to hubris‚ but denoting excess in behavior or mistakes). 3. A reversal of fortune (peripetia) brought about because of the hero ’s tragic error. 4. The discovery or recognition that the reversal was brought about by the hero ’s own actions (anagnorisis)
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the Iliad it is expressed that a hero is someone that strives to achieve the greatest glory when you look at the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. In this situation Agamemnon forces Achilles to give up his prize in Briseis due to being forced to give up Chryseis. Agamemnon really shames Achilles in front of the entire Greek army showing how much superior Agamemnon is. According to the Greeks glory can be shown by the
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Agamemnon When Agamemnon first comes‚ he is talking about long time being away from home and final come back. He says he is just a mortal man. He does not want that people honor him for victory- but God. He is just human and God the one who has to be praised and honored. After discussion with Clytemnestra Agamemnon changes. He becomes unreasonable and arrogant. He changes his mind. We can see that he gets influence of other people very easy. Agamemnon feels that he is the one who deserves to be honored
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of disaster. An example of his leadership is his position in the army‚ he is the highest ranking soldier because he is the best. Another example of his leadership is at the beginning of the epic‚ a plague is killing the Achaean soldiers and king Agamemnon wont give him answers; so he takes things into his own
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so close knit makes being at war a dismal time for both of them. Achilles was a man of anger and with this anger he dishonored Agamemnon‚ the commander of the Achaean forces. This forced Achilles to withdraw from the battle. After Agamemnon took Chrysies the daughter of a priest of Apollo‚ Achilles saw a way of returning to his rein in the war. He followed Agamemnon instruction in protecting the prophet with the key to saving Greece from the plague that was forced upon them in order to free Chrysies
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Tragedy and Drama In a range of dramatic works from Agamemnon to Hamlet‚ one sees the range of development of the tragic form‚ from the earliest Greek to the later Shakespearean tragedies. There are two basic concepts of tragedy: the concept introduced by Aristotle in his Poetics‚ and the concept developed by Frederick Nietzsche in his "The Birth of Tragedy." Many dramas can be reviewed to reveal the contrast between these two concepts of tragedy‚ and demonstrate the development of the tragic
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