The first play of the story is named after the great Agamemnon whose greatness ends up being his downfall. The beginning gives us an overview of the ten year war and the image of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter. ... Agamemnon and Lot, both wanted to preserve themselves by killing innocents. ... "No house can thrive without you" (Aeschylus pg:270 line:903). ... Agamemnon was a great leader but didn't have true respect for his family. ...

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In Aeschylus" tragedy Clytemnestra is portrayed as a strong willed woman, which was not very typical of her time. ... Aegisthus should have been the one to murder Agamemnon on behalf of his father. ... Aegisthus was once an exile and he never got the chance to kill Agamemnon. The only way to kill him was through Agamemnon's wife and even then it was not Aegisthus" arm that killed him. ... The only one that could avenge Agamemnon's death was Orestes and now he is dead. ...

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For Clytaemnestra this brought much hatred towards Agamemnon. ... death, she had to make Agamemnon feel as though nothing was wrong. ... (Agamemnon 1555), therefore it is just. ... Works Cited Aeschylus. ... Agamemnon. ...

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Aeschylus' Oresteia focuses on revenge as justice, with the old system that no longer works and that someone must fix, and a new system that has many advantages. ... Clytemnestra is no exception to this rule; she feels that she must avenge the murder of her daughter by killing her husband, Agamemnon. When Agamemnon arrives from conquering Troy, Clytemnestra only wishes that "she will have victory'(pg47) She flatters him and attacks him through his greatest weakness, his pride by treating him and giving him the welcome of a god, "I am to be glorified/ and great me as a man "(pg44)....

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Aeschylus produced his great trilogy, "The Oresteia". ... The Oresteia originally consisted of four plays-Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Euminides and Proteus. ... Atreus had two sons called Agamemnon and Menelaus. Agamemnon marries Clytaemnestra, and Menelaus marries Helen. ... Agamemnon does so and his troops set sail. ...

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Aeschylus cannot think this. ... To soften his message, he evolves his idea through the use of a trilogy, the Story of Agamemnon, Euripides, and the Libation Bearers (I think that's right). ... Some believe Aeschylus was forced to write the Oresteia by an angry mob of young radicals. ... Which leads us to the story, Aeschylus clearly hides ideas in his paper. ... This is the prevailing theory, was Aeschylus and the gang really gay (not as in merry but MARY). ...

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Aeschylus aptly personifies the basis of this societal value with the words of Athena: ?... Likewise, the immortality of Aeschylus? ... In Agamemnon, the first play, Clytemnestra kills the King brutally, heartlessly, inspired by her angry, vengeful nature, her lust for power, and, quite probably, the hellish Furies. ... In addition, Aeschylus moves the setting of the play during its progression from a distant polis to his audience's very own city. ...

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