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...
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...
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 ...
Imagine your husband returning from war expecting a warm embrace, whereas you've been marinating in betrayal since he sacrificed your daughter. Clytemnestra was far from forgiving. Her coping strategy? Revenge paired with a conspiracy with cousin Aegisthus....
The Agamemnon's daughter is one of the most famous novels written by Ismail Kadare. Same as the antique tragedy, the daughter is sacrificed by her father f... I Myzeqari 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Lady Vernon and Her Daughter: A Novel of Jane Austen`s Lady Susan Jane Austen's novella Lady...
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...
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 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 ...
Agamemnon isClytemnestra’s first husband and father toElectra,Orestes,Iphigenia, andChrysothemis. According to Greek myth, after Agamemnon offended the goddessArtemisand she stalled the winds, halting the fleet of Greek warriors headed to fight in the Trojan War, Agamemnon sacrificed Iphigenia to pla...
By N.S. Gill Agamemnon and the Greek Expedition When Helen was abducted by the Trojan princeParis, Agamemnon led the Greek expedition to Troy to take back his brother's wife. In order for the Greek fleet to set sail from Aulis, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Art...