Cassandra was the daughter of Hecuba and King Priam, the rulers of Troy during the Trojan War according to Homer\'s Iliad. Cassandra was a beautiful young woman, blessed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo, who was infatuated with her. Unfortunately, she shunned Apollo at the last minute and he adde...

In "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus, Clytaemnestra is the character with the majority of the power because of her ability to manipulate the other characters. She is not influenced or swayed by Aegisthus to murder her husband. She kills to gain justice for her daughter's death, as she feels ...

The word hubris is Greek for exaggerated pride or arrogance. In Greece it was punished swiftly by the Greek gods, and was believed to be a horrible sin. In the first part of the trilogy, Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Agamemnon is the epitome of hubris. He exudes his pompous pride so much throug...

In a legalistic system of justice, human beings are responsible for their actions because they are assumed to have at least some control over their own actions and their environment. Therefore, taking into consideration certain mitigating factors, they can be judged for their actions, and be punish...

In Greek poetry, the story of Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War is dramatized by Aeschylus in the Oresteia. Agamemnon has gone to war to fight for the return of Helen, who was taken by Paris, the Prince of Troy. All of the Greeks leave to wage war on Troy, and Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife,...

Aeschylus's plays "Agamemnon", "The Libation Bearers", and "Eumenides" were all based on one parent child conflict that gradually manifested into one the best-known curses in Greek mythology. Tantalus, one of Zeus's many sons, started this havoc when he attemp...

Analysis of Clytemnestra's Character in Agamemnon In Aeschylus' tragedy Agamemnon the character of Clytemnestra is portrayed as strong willed woman. This characteristic is not necessarily typical of women of her time. As a result, the reader must take a deeper look into the understanding o...