The House of Atreus
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
05.08.2025
Verlag
Bibliotech PrSeitenzahl
172
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22,9/15,2/1,4 cm
Gewicht
382 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798897732050
The House of Atreus refers to the tragic saga of a royal family cursed with a legacy of murder, revenge, and divine punishment. This mythic cycle is most famously dramatized in Aeschylus' trilogy, The Oresteia, which consists of three plays:
1. Agamemnon
Summary: King Agamemnon returns to Argos after winning the Trojan War. His wife, Clytemnestra, murders him in revenge for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia to gain favorable winds for his fleet. Clytemnestra is aided by her lover, Aegisthus, who also seeks revenge-his father was killed by Agamemnon's father, Atreus.
Themes: Betrayal, vengeance, and the burden of the ancestral curse.
2. The Libation Bearers (Choephoroi)
Summary: Agamemnon's son, Orestes, returns from exile and is urged by the gods to avenge his father's death. With his sister Electra, he kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. However, this matricide brings on the wrath of the Furies (Erinyes)-ancient spirits of vengeance.
Themes: Justice vs. vengeance, divine law vs. human morality, guilt and madness.
The Eumenides
Summary: Orestes flees to Athens seeking purification. The goddess Athena intervenes, setting up the first court of law to try Orestes. The Furies demand justice for matricide, but Orestes is acquitted by the court, and the Furies are transformed into the Eumenides, protectors of justice.
Themes: Transition from personal revenge to civil justice, the evolution of society and law, reconciliation of old and new orders.
About The author
Aeschylus (525/524 - c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.
Only seven of Aeschylus's estimated 70 to 90 plays have survived in complete form. There is a long-standing debate regarding the authorship of one of them, Prometheus Bound, with some scholars arguing that it may be the work of his son Euphorion. Fragments from other plays have survived in quotations, and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyri. These fragments often give further insights into Aeschylus' work. He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy. His Oresteia is the only extant ancient example. At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480-479 BC). This work, The Persians, is one of very few classical Greek tragedies concerned with contemporary events, and the only one extant.
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