AESCHYLUS Aeschylus lived between 525 BC and 456 BC. ... Aeschylus was born in Eleusis, near Athens. ... Aeschylus is said to have written about 90 plays. ... In Agamemnon, one of the greatest works of dramatic literature, King Agamemnon returns home from Troy and is treacherously murdered by his faithless wife Clytemnestra. In the second play, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returns to Argos and avenges the murder of his father by slaying his mother and her paramour Aegisthus. ...

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The character of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus" Agamemnon is very masculine and is shown posses some male traits. ... Another female figure in Greek tragedy that dominates is Clytemnestra, in Aeschylus, Agamemnon. ... While Agamemnon has been away Clytemnestra has been acting in a masculine way during his absents. ... In the beginning of the Trojan War, Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to please the gods. ... However in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, women seem to play a more dominate role. ...

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Furthermore, in studying Aeschylus's Agamemnon we can see something very different from Oedipus the King but with the same idea that violence is not the center of the tragedy and does not have to be staged. In Agamemnon, unlike Oedipus the King the chorus does not give such a vivid description but we do have the offstage screaming: "Ah, I am struck a deadly blow and deep within! ... (Agamemnon 1343-5) There is still no description of Agamemnon's death, all the audience have to feed off is his painful cries and the confusion and terror of the chorus listening on stage. ... It is key t...

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