... as a medium for Aeschylus" brilliant rhetoric in Agamemnon. Clytaemestra's rhetoric not only invokes vivid imagery, but also confuses and perverts spheres of logic and rhetoric: sacrifice with murder, liquids with cloth, and blood with wine. These images overturn the values and traditions of her society, symbolized by the chorus, by joining spheres that were customarily kept ... separate. Aeschylus" perversion of values through the confusion of rhetorical spheres gives Clytaemestra ultimate power in the play and throughout the trilogy. One of the ways Aeschylus builds Clytaemestra's pow...

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... the use of traps and nets. In the Oresteia, what is normally the hunt of animals for the consumption and survival of human beings is combined with war also, resulting in negative connotations to the word. With the combination of the two independently good ideas, war and hunting, there is a result of the idea of war being a hunt of human beings. It seems to the chorus in the beginning of the Agamemnon that the ... war over Helen of Troy has made ... not only the city of Priam a victim of the Greek armies, but according to ... ...

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... , there he is defenseless. Clytaemnestra carries out the sentence that she sees just by slashing Agamemnon with a sword three times. Then she kills Cassandra, Agamemnon's concubine he received for defeating Troy, whom she sees as a nuisance if left alive. Medea, on the other hand does not use brute force at first to kill like Clytaemnestra, instead she uses what she knows best, poison ... own eyes, she was an executioner. She has punished a murderer, a murderer of his own child, he murdered for the Thracian winds, she feels it needs no explanation (Hamilton 255). She feels it is anAct fo...

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... Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, The Orchestra, Agamemnon, and The Prometheus (Smith). Among them is most famous work, Agamemnon. Aeschylus's plays held a recurring set of traits. Each character was clear and direct, the plays usually consisted of reconciliation after guilt and punishment have taken place (trumbull). He also removed all killing from view of the audience (bates). The characters wore more elaborate ... play writing, Helen and the Cyclops come close to comedies(theater history 1). Instead of his plays representing epic heroes of the past, his characters represe...

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