Agamemnon has conquered Troy鈥攈e has been the agent of Zeus' just punishment of Paris' city鈥攂ut in the process he has sacrificed his daughter and incurred the hatred of his wife, left many Argive homes in mourning, and commanded men who violated sacred places in Troy and did other thin...
Iphigenia's sacrifice However, as the ships were ready to set sail, Agamemnon’s army infuriated the goddessArtemis, who sent a number of misfortunes against them. The prophetCalchasrealised thatArtemis’ fury would only be appeased by the sacrifice of Agamemnon’s daughterIphigenia. This part o...
She has been nursing a grudge for many years since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, at the start of the Trojan War in order to to appease the offended god Artemis. To make matters worse, in Agamemnon‘s absence, she has taken as her lover his cousin, Aegisthus, who ...
How do you view the person of Agamemnon? He often gets a bad press. Well it’s true that he’s often viewed as a villain and he was certainly a brutal warrior and a womanizer, who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in a deal to get the right winds to sail to Troy. Yet he was an ...
And yet he, valuing no more than if it had been a beast that perished—though sheep were plenty in his fleecy folds—he sacrificed his own child, she whom I bore with dearest travail, to charm the blasts of Thrace. Is it not he whom you should have banished from this land in ...
In Webster's Dictionary, a hero is defined as a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of purpose, especially if this individual has risked or sacrificed his life. It can also be used in reference to a mythological or legendary figure, often of divine ancestry, who is favored by the...
Yet the war cannot be fought if the ships cannot sail, and it isclear that the favorable winds will only blow if Iphigeneia is sacrificed.Even though Aeschylus has the Chorus condemn Agamemnon, theyalso repeat the words he spoke as he struggled with what todo, facedwith such a cho...
In Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon, part of his Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra is driven to murder Agamemnon partly to avenge the death of her daughter Iphigeneia, whom Agamemnon had sacrificed for the sake of success in the war, partly because of her adulterous love for Aegisthus and partly as ...