... overall story a little more to better fit the Aristotelian definition of tragedy. It will be told with Clytemnestra being the main protagonist and her son, Orestes, being the antagonist of the story. Her daughter Electra will also be in the episode as well as a chorus, messenger, Aegisthus and Agamemnon. The ... . It's only a rumor that they are having an illicit relation as no one has actually seen them together intimately or knows for sure. Orestes then enters the scene and walks by and overhears the talking. He refutes the rumors and instead chooses to defend his mother against his be...

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... Gore them like a bull!" he called, "or pay their debt with your own life, one long career of grief.""(Pg. 191, line 272-281). Orestes murders his mother and Aegisthus due to the oracle and seems to gain justice for the death of his father. One can debate as to whether he ... killed his own father gives him more confidence to go ahead with killing his mother because it seems the right thing to do, especially for his father. In Orestes eyes his mother is a murderer, "You are the murderer, not I - and you will kill yourself."(Pg. 218, line 910). His mother deserves everything ... she gets...

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... power. This is were the play "The Libation Bearers" starts. Many years after Agamemnon's death, Orestes and Electra return, which their mother Clytaemnestra has betrayed from their rightful inheritance. Orestes has been commanded by the god Apollo to take revenge on his mother for killing Agamemnon and to reclaim ... own justifications it only leads to more new killings with other new reasons for taking revenge. As it also explains in "The Oresteia"; "He (Orestes) must recognize, in fact, that his revenge is just, but that justice takes the form of matricide, the greatest form of guilt."...

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... of their father, but there is always the danger of becoming trapped in a net of deception. The only other direct referral to a net is when Orestes and Electra are working up the courage to kill their mother and their step father. They speak of the "all-embracing net," (L.B. 479), in which ... He begins with the ghost of the dead Clytemnestra wanting the Furies to avenge her murder by first insulting the weakness of their hunting nets. "he [Orestes] is through the thick of your nets, he breaks away! Mocking laughter twists across his face," (Eum. 116-117). Even insults begin with poking ....

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... motivation for murdering Agamemnon was in retribution for the crimes committed against his father. As a result, Orestes, Agamemnon's remaining son, is now responsible for avenging his father's death. Orestes avenges the death by murdering his mother and Aegisthus for which he receives his mother's curse. Orestes is then plagued by the Furies for the murder. However, this poses the question of whether it ... ...

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... it in ruins in 455 A.D. During the next twenty years, several Western Emperors were installed by Constantinople, the Eastern Roman Emperor, but their authority relied upon barbarian commanders. In 475 A.D., Orestes rose to power and appointed his own son Romulus Augustus as emperor. However, in 476, Odoacer, a German general in the Roman army, invaded the empire ... . Orestes was killed and Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, installed himself as ruler over Rome without an election from the senate. By 476 A.D, the waves of Barbarians that descended upon Italy during ... ...

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... , 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 The Libation Bearers, however, Orestes? actions, while they are still partially motivated by revenge, are also instructed by the god Apollo. After all, he does not actually go to kill his mother until after he ... shrill prophecies?/?foretold storms of suffering if I did not avenge my father's killers. (L.B. 269-273) Finally, in The Furies, a jury of the wisest citizens of Athens decides the fate of Orestes. This time...

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... unique. He had the ability to persuade anyone to follow suit. He was forced under dagger to write the Oresteia. The lead character Orestes was really the name of the lead character of the small revolutionary group whose name "ORESTES" is short for ORESTESIA (which mistranslated into the Oresteia). Orestesia was believed to be the god of deceit. Sometimes not referred to ... ...

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... father's house. But we can readily assume that this piece of work - if it is not already done - will be completed as quickly and effectively as the setting free of Orestes, although that was a much harder task to accomplish: Here, the siblings hat to get rid of an age old curse and of the raging furies; and it was all done ... that there's another guy looming in the background - and that in the very short future our young and eager friend Pylades might become a very suitable husband for his best friend Orestes' repatriated sister. But nonetheless - Thoas can not make up his mind. We se ...

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... public process of persuasion and litigation. In order to constitute the court of law, however, Athena must first deal with the Furies" threat that if they lose at trial and Orestes is not handed over to them in order to avenge his murder of his mother, the land will know no peace and they will bring an awful curse upon its ... ...

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... more than 90 plays credited to Euripides, 18 survive: Alcestis, Andromache, the Bacchae, the Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, the Heracleidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Orestes, the Phoenissae, Rhesus and the Trojan Women. Herodotus the Historian Herodotus wrote the first historical narrative and first great prose work of Greek literature. His History is an entertaining description ... ...

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