INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------- p 231 A lot more politically themed. Menelaus is accusing Agamemnon of feigning humility in order to gain political power and “market advancement.”He says he’s abandoned his old friends. ;/He is also saying that Agamemnon was marveled at the idea of manning so many ships to TroyThe lack of winds put th efleet at an impasse. Agamemnon felt he’d lose his glory if the fleet would instead have to turn back now. The only way to restore his name was
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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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In Book 9 of the Illiad translated by Lombardo‚ Agamemnon offers Achilles gifts to persuade him to go back into battle. The gifts include‚ seven unfired tripods‚ ten gold bars‚ twenty burnished cauldrons‚ a dozen prizewinning horses‚ seven women‚ including Briseus’ daughter‚ and if they sack Troy‚ a ship full of bronze and gold‚ twenty women‚ the hand of one of his daughters‚ and seven cities. The gifts were only given when Agamemnon realized that the Greeks would not win the war unless Achilles
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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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justifiable reason to have kicked Agamemnon to the curb. Not only does Agamemnon kill her daughter just so he can go to war –talk about daddy problems-‚ but they begin much before that when Agamemnon kills her first husband and son and then takes her as property from the man he just defeated. Also Clytemnestra has been cursed since birth to be an adulterer which is a small part of the reason she decides to take Aegisthus as a lover; to finish everything off Agamemnon is gone for ten years in troy and
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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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is the center of the Iliad is the emotional aspect of force. Agamemnon is affected by force exactly as Weil describes – he is enslaved and blinded by it. Agamemnon is typically respectful of the gods and generally leads his troops well as he attempts to protect his soldiers. However in the first book‚ an external cause forces him to lose his composure and fall under the pressures of it. Chryses‚ a priest of Apollo‚ comes to Agamemnon to ask him for his daughter back. This action modifies Agamemnon’s
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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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