Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55 (2015) 832–862 2015 Jonah Radding Clytemnestra at Aulis: Euripides and the Reconsideration of Tradition Jonah Radding LYTEMNESTRA, in her final iteration in extant tragedy, rejects the timeless mythological tradition that pre-sented her as a faithless and deadly woman and wife (Eur. A beacon flashes, and he joyfully runs to tell the news to Queen Clytemnestra. Clytemnestra, the Character. Women’s Speech in Greek Tragedy: The Case of Electra and Clytemnestra in Euripides’ Electra1 - Volume 51 Issue 2 Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus also slaughtered Cassandra. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, demonized in later Greek tragedy , ruled Mycenae for a time after dispatching with Agamemnon and Cassandra, but when her son by Agamemnon, Orestes, returned to Mycenae, he murdered them both, as beautifully told in Euripides's "Oresteia." When he later returned, she helped him to slay their mother and their mother’s lover, Aegisthus. 2018.12.27 | By Gregory Nagy I challenge myself here to write up seven elementary “plot outlines”—I call them overviews—for seven Greek tragedies: (1) Agamemnon and (2) Libation-Bearers and (3) Eumenides, by Aeschylus; (4) Oedipus at Colonus and (5) Oedipus Tyrannus, by Sophocles; (6) Hippolytus and (7) Bacchae (or Bacchic Women), by Euripides. A more recent, and in my view, less convincing interpre-tation holds that Clytemnestra in this speech shows herself to be a sort of Aristotelian gentleman, one … Dangerous women in Greek Tragedy: Medea and Clytemnestra; Courses by subject. To put it bluntly, reading Greek tragedy can give literally anyone a crash course in Western civilization which is short, pithy, and terribly apt. 3For this view, see Thomson (above, n. 1) 76; John Jones, Aristotle and Greek Tragedy (London 1962) 87. Electra then married Orestes’ friend Pylades. Let’s take — for purposes of illustration — the first part of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, which concentrates on Agamemnon’s murder by his wife Clytemnestra. IA 1158): Clytemnestra was the daughter of King Tyndareus and Queen Leda of Sparta. Courses by subject overview; Archaeology and Landscape History; Biological Sciences; Business and Entrepreneurship; Creative Writing and English Literature; Education Studies and Teaching; Engineering and Technology; History. Agamemnon begins with a Watchman on duty on the roof of the palace at Argos, waiting for a signal announcing the fall of Troy to the Greek armies. The tyranny under which Argos finds itself during the rule of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus corresponds in a very broad way to some events in the biographical career of Aeschylus himself. History overview; Holocaust Studies Electra, (Greek: “Bright One”) in Greek legend, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who saved the life of her young brother Orestes by sending him away when their father was murdered. Clytemnestra eventually, after much coaxing, manages to persuade Agamemnon to walk across the red carpet to the palace.
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