Murder and Revenge in Aeschylus’s Play, Libation Bearers

Clytemnestra fits the character of one of the Argos’s contaminations because of her adulterous acts with Aegisthus and her psychotic murderous plans to kill her husband Agamemnon. In her point of view, justice will only be obtained of she avenges the death of her daughter Iphigenia by killing the one who murdered her, Agamemnon. Cassandra mentions this cycle of fertility and decay when she talks about “the babies wailing, skewered on the sword, their flesh charred, the father gorging on their parts” referring to Thyestes’ babies (A 1095-1097). More blood vengeance and violence only fuels what becomes a never ending cycle of death and decay within the House of Atreus. When Clytaemnestra finally kills Agamemnon she cries, “So he goes down, and the life is bursting out of him—great sprays of blood, and the murderous shower wounds me, dyes me black and I, I revel like the Earth when the spring rains come down, the blessed gifts of god, and the new green spear splits the sheath and rips to birth in glory!”, and she feels reborn from his death and even calls it a gift from the god (A 1410-1415). Not only does Clytaemnestra feel renewed from murdering Agamemnon, but she feels that it was the proper and just thing to do. Although the Furies don’t go after her since this is not a crime of matricide or patricide, killing her husband is unwise and unfair because in Agamemnon’s

Similar to The Aeneid, The Oresteia also demonstrates characters caving into their emotions. Clytemnestra, the Queen of Argos, lacks the power to prevent her daughter being used as a sacrificial lamb to the gods. The misery she felt when her husband, Agamemnon, sacrificed their daughter was immense. So immense that it led her to murder, for she thought that

The trilogy of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia follows a bloody feud within the House of Atreus. With this feud there are many boundaries that get crossed and challenged dealing with revenge and murder. A clear shift in justice is observed over the course of the three plays and Aeschylus shows that this shift in justice as an evolution that must happen to shape a society. The Oresteia provides a message that a society must come together to define justice in order to become unified and it must protect the interests of everyone and not just a single case or person.

King Acrisius was king of Argos. He had an amazingly beautiful daughter, but he wished deeply for a son, so he prayed to the gods for them to give him a son. Apollo,the god of culture and prophecy, told him that he will never have a son in all his days and that the son of his daughter will slay him. Acrisius thinks of just killing his daughter,Danae, to prevent his prophecy, but fears of the punishment he will receive from the gods for this act, so he instead locks his daughter in an entirely bronze house and guards it closely. What he did not expect is for the king of the gods Zeus to come directly to his daughter and impregnate her. From this comes a son named Perseus. When Acrisius learns of his daughter's offspring, he puts both Perseus and Danae in a trunk and sets it off into the ocean. By luck or by the will of Zeus Perseus and Danae wash up onto a small island, where a kind hearted fisherman named Dictys takes in the two strangers. They live contently with Dictys until Dictys' brother, King Polydectes, fell in love with Danae. He decides to construe a plot to get rid of her son,Perseus, so that he can have her. The plan he comes is to convince Perseus to go and slay the woman-beast Medusa. He thinks this feat impossible by a mortal man, because any man who lays eyes upon her turns to stone. To aid him on his quest Hermes gives him a sword stronger than that of Medusa's scale. He also told him he would need equipment from the nymphs of the north, who's location was unknown by all except the Gray Women who are ray and live in gray.The three sisters share one eye between them all and

The female characters portrayed in Aeschylus and Sophocles’ works have considerably different personalities and roles, yet those females all have the common weaknesses of being short-sighted and stubborn. They intensify the conflicts within their families while being inconsiderate of the impacts that they may bring to their nations and societies, which leads to consequences that they are incapable of taking responsibilities for. Clytemnestra and Antigone, two major characters in their respective author’s works, possess different motivations for their deeds in the stories. While Clytemnestra is driven by the desire of revenge to murder her husband Agamemnon, Antigone acts against Creon’s will and strives to properly bury her brother. Despite having different motivations and personalities, Clytemnestra and Antigone both commit

He gives the unwise Aegisthus as an example - a man who strayed from his fate, disobeyed divine advice and was punished for his murder of Agamemnon by the avenging Orestes. This story of Orestes avenging his father's death will be repeated again and again, not only in the Telemachy, but also elsewhere in the book. The story is compared to the Ithacan situation, usually emphasised differently with different people (e.g. Nestor compares Telemachus to Orestes, "be as brave as Orestes", in encouragement, building upon his minimal kleos).

Orestes’ father, Agamemnon, is suffered for the truth of the prophecy, the child is the price: if he kills his child, his country will win the war. Due to this prophecy, Agamemnon is tortured and agonizing between his two important roles: father of his family and father of the country. If he chooses his family and doesn’t kill his child, they will lose the war. All people in the country will be tortured as slaves and colonists. However, if he chooses the win, the peace and the pleasant from a family will not exist anymore. His family will be demolished. Eventually, in the middle of the story, he decides to kill Iphigenia. Agamemnon chooses his country, his subjects, and the win, not his family’s peace. He makes Iphigenia drink three solutions including the pills which make her die. “I feel like I’ve done something so wrong that my whole life, my family, nothing will be able to- the worst mistake. I got it wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong” (Aeschylus, 56.) This demonstrates how he is suffered by the truth that he killed his daughter. His choice, even

Agamemnon is the first book in the Orestiean Trilogy written by the famous Greek tragedy writer, Aeschylus. Agamemnon is a story of justice and revenge. The story takes place in a city called Argos. It starts with Agamemnon, the king of Argos, away at the Trojan War. The city is eagerly awaiting the news of their king’s welfare and the outcome of the war. Watchmen are posted in the city, watching for the beacon that would report the capture of Troy and Agamemnon’s return. Beacons are set up from Troy to Argos; when one beacon is lit, the next one will be lit, until the last. The play starts when a palace watchman discovers the beacon and tells Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, the good news.

Odysseus comes home to Ithaca to find that his journey has one more challenge before his reward. His palace had been taken over by a bunch of suitors that have been eating his crops and livestock and trying to steal his wife when he was still alive.After Odysseus and Telemachus kill all the suitors they leave the bodies where they lay,“...

After Orestes avenges his father’s murder, he himself is now involved in the cyclic bloodshed; however, instead of him being killed by kin, he is hunted by the punishers of matricides, the Furies. The last play of Aeschylus I, The Eumenides, marks the change from antiquated Argos to abreast Athens. It also highlights the transition of men from upholding the violent, Lex Talionis tradition to a trial based system of justice. Though by thought this was an achievement, from barbaric to civilized thinking, but in truth justice was hardly practiced.

The Eumenides describes a distraught Orestes who is being terrorized by the Furies for killing his mother, Clytemnestra, while avenging his father's death. Apollo suggests for Orestes to flee to Athens to avoid the Furies. The Furies follow him to Athens where Athena, the goddess of wisdom, holds a trial to determine if Orestes should be killed for his actions against his own family. After a group of Athenians cannot decide, Athena has the final say, sparing Orestes life and renaming the Furies to the Eumenides, or "kindly ones" (Aeschylus, The Eumenides lines 1:1047). The trial scene is now referred to as the "Vote of Athena", as never before in Greek myth has a courtroom-like trial taken place.

I couldn't see who did it, but I was tired. As we got to Agamemnon's castle, Clytemnestra was acting as if she was happy that Agamemnon has returned. I stood there with no motion just going into a vision, I saw Apollo. He was going to kill me with an axe. he was about to slay me, and I screamed as loud as I could. I never thought of a horrific accident. As I came back to reality, Queen Clytemnestra was calling for me, for I knew that this was my fate. I stood there trying not to show fear. She took me to Agamemnon, dead she had an axe, just like the vision. " do you have mercy, please don't kill me I shall not die as a slave" I plead. "You'll die with your beloved one", says Clytemnestra in rage. She grabbed the axe and swung, I jerked a bit, but it was too late. " you shall pay for this, for these are my last words." I say. As I see the light and blood behind me, I rise to join the gods and I am glad the suffering has

Suddenly, Aigisthos ruled covering Agamemnon's state. Although in the end, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, appeared to revenge for his father and killed Aigisthos together with their mother. Menelaos and Helen were celebrating the separate marriage of their son and daughter. Telemachos and Peisistratos arrived at the court of Menelaos and Helen where they were welcomed. At dawn, Menelaos questioned why Telemachos occurred to Lacedaimon.

In Oedipus's speech, it is asked that if anyone knows who the murderer(s) of Laius is/are, they should not keep quiet out of fear of being condemned. For whoever is responsible for the murder is believed to be the one responsible for the curse mentioned on the dialogue. It would be in the best interest for anyone with any knowledge to step forward.

The poetic tone of Aristophanes' Lysistrata differs greatly from the poetic tone of the Greek tragedies we have read in class. However, after analyzing this Greek comedy, it seems to share some of the main characteristics of Euripides' Medea. Within these plays, we meet shrewd, powerful masculine women who use the art of manipulation to get what they want from others and to accomplish their goals. This theme of manipulation is employed through various means and techniques. The women of these plays also seem to contradict the stereotypical woman and have characteristics similar to the Homeric Greek warrior.