At the beginning of Homer's tale Akhilleus" confrontation with Agamemnon shows us the nobility and integrity of a soldier although high up in the ranks of a great army, he stands up against his commander in chief so to speak because he felt that he was the only one with enough courage and military worth to be able to speak up and question Agamemnon's actions. ... You gain a sense of respect for Akhilleus because of all the men in the Achaean army it was he who looked out for the good of the army and begged Agamemnon to give Khryses back his daughter Khryseis. , so that Apollo wou...

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In the play Agamemnon, Clytemnestra is more powerful and intelligent than any of the men in the play. ... Clytemnestra uses her charm as a weapon as she persuades Agamemnon to step up to the red carpet and face his murder. ... Clytemnestra's crime against Agamemnon in her point of view is balanced since he is guilty of committing a crime against their daughter, Iphigenia. ... The mention of Aegisthus leads Clytemnestra to justify the murder of Agamemnon and Cassandra due to Agamemnon's infidelity; however, Clytemnestra herself is also guilty of this, thus cancelling out the charges. ...

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Fowler deduces that masculine power is threatened by the murder of the King, Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra. ... She argues that Agamemnon, Cassandra, Aegisthus, and she are the better couples. ... Zeitlin on his part perceives that placing Agamemnon together with Cassandra is a method of weakening him. According to him, Agamemnon, through his association with Cassandra is feminized (Zeitlin 92) In both the Agamemnon and the Choephori, Clytemnestra is portrayed as something different from a wife and a mother. ... The Erinyes will come from Agamemnon if Orestes fails to avenge him. ...

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Yet, in the Oresteia, the story of Agamemnon revolves around human sacrifice as a secondary motif. ... And because Agamemnon is blinded by his determination for his Army's success, he commits the sacrifice fervently. ... The fact that Agamemnon willingly sacrifices his daughter so quickly, shows that her life meant nothing to him once it began to infringe upon his military progress. ... The irrevocable acts in Agamemnon produce a series of consequential events that essentially aid in stabilizing the city's foundation. ... Strong discipline, in Ancient Greece, prevented chaos and diso...

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Homer uses the leitmotifs of disguise and repeated tellings of Agamemnon's story to emphasize the importance of metis, or governing oneself with rational thinking and wisdom. ... While disguise showcases the traits commonly associated with metis, Homer does the opposite when he displays bie and Poseidon's traits with the leitmotif of repeated tellings of Agamemnon's family story. In the very first pages of the poem, Zeus "remember[s] handsome Aegisthus, the man Agamemnon's son, renowned Orestes, killed" (1:34-35). The very nature of the Agamemnon, Aegisthus an...

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