... where I had caught it fast. And therefore is your son, in whom my love and yours are sealed and pledged, not her to stand with us today, Orestes. Strophius of Phocis, comrade in arms and faithful friend to you, is keeping him. He spoke of me of peril on two counts; of your danger under ... Agamemnon. The only way to kill him was through Agamemnon's wife and even then it was not Aegisthus" arm that killed him. Aegisthus does not see Orestes coming to kill them because of the similar experience that he had to Aegisthus. Therefore he will never come to exact revenge on them because he has be...

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... city by murdering Agamemnon because he abandoned them for ten years, sacrificed their daughter Iphigeneia, and was unfaithful to her. This way of justice being served is also seen when Orestes slays his mother Clytemnestra and her lover in The Libation Bearers, due her killing his father Agamemnon. Both of Aeschylus' plays show the idea of justice being served throughout them ... 1842), meaning that whoever acts violently against another person, will reap the consequences. The idea of getting justice in The Libation Bearers is also driven by revenge and vengeance. When Orestes is told h...

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... divine gods ordered such things to happen. Now what confuses me a bit is when and where do the gods give permission for justice to be served. Clytemnestra and Orestes, even Agamemnon say the gods approve of such killings, but I don't see a direct dialogue between the gods and these individuals or am I just supposed to know ... The way the play is left off is very interesting, but any good tragedy must have this kind of twist on it. I am wondering what will happen to Orestes, I don't want him to die and if he is murdered who will be the one to do it? Who will want revenge on him, maybe el...

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... or who is just plain stupid. Piety, to Electra is very important. She surely would love to avenge her father's death but she can"t do it by herself. She needs Orestes there by her side to do it since it is the duty of the son to avenge the death of his father. In this case, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus are the ... murderers of Agamemnon's death. Electra, having hope in Orestes and a strong devotion to the gods, she lives mourning her father's death. Electra says "Never shall I depart from sorrow and tears and lamentation" (231-232). No one, even her own ... loved another person very much...

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... then tells the stories of the return home of various heroes, including Agamemnon and Menelaus. Agamemnon was murdered on his return home by Aegisthus, his wife's lover, and Nestor praises Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who avenges his father's murder by killing Aegisthus. Telemachus wishes to have similar strength so that he might take revenge on his mother's suitors. Nestor suggests that Telemachus ... ...

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... . Great Nestor told me a story of Agamemnon, and how he came back from Troy only to find Aegisthus married to his wife, Clytemnestra, and then Aegisthus killed him. Agamemnon's son, Orestes, who had been in exile in Athens, came back to Mycenae and took revenge for his father's and killed Aegisthus and his mother, Clytemnestra. With his advice, and maybe some ... ...

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