HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aegisthus, Thyestes, Clytemnestra

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1825
• Professor: Neil Braganza

Document Summary

Issues that stressing modern performance of these plays: In agamemnon, the king of argos, agamemnon, returns home from troy after ten years of war, accompanied by his trojan slave concubine, the prophetess cassandra. Clytemnestra, who has plotted his murder, with her lover aegisthus. Clytemnestra acts to avenge the death of her daughter iphigenia, who was sacrificed by her father, in order for the greeks to go to troy. Aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374)"s fathe(cid:396) at(cid:396)eus had se(cid:396)(cid:448)ed up aegisthu"s brothers as a meal to their unwitting father thyestes. At(cid:396)eus" (cid:449)ife in a dispute over the throne. I(cid:374) the li(cid:271)iatio(cid:374) (cid:271)ea(cid:396)e(cid:396)s, aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374)"s a(cid:374)d cl(cid:455)te(cid:373)(cid:374)est(cid:396)a"s so(cid:374) o(cid:396)estes (cid:396)etu(cid:396)(cid:374)s f(cid:396)o(cid:373) e(cid:454)ile to a(cid:448)e(cid:374)ge his father at the behest of the god apollo. In the furies, orestes is purified by apollo in delphi but must go to athens in an attempt to elude the persistent furies. There the goddess athena establishes the first trial by jury for murder at court of.