ENG 201 Lecture 22: Agamemnon Lines 986
29 Mar 2017
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In book one of the odyssey, zeus complains that humans blame the gods for their troubles. He mentions how they warned aegisthus not to go near. By killing agamemnon, clytemnestra ignores the warning: use of the word heroine makes her seem like she belongs in an epic, hubris is too much pride. It is an example of a hamartia, the greek term for tragic flaw c. i. c. ii. They come up with a plan, and in the meantime agamemnon is getting killed b. ii. 1. She was probably relayed the prophecies in this manner b. i. 1. Is there a link between prophetic gift and sanity: there are no interior scenes in greek tragedy, you can hear screaming, they have a large cart that can be extended onto the stage, so with the case of. Agamemnon and cassandra"s bodies, we do not see them get killed but they will wheel in this cart so that the audience can see the bodies b. i.
