CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aegisthus, Omen, Atreus
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What makes agammemnon great: brother of menelaus (king of sparta, led a leet to troy to bring helen back, expediion is victorious, this victory is dramaized in the play. Talks about the giant, complex relay of beacons: pages 6 and 7 indicate the nature of the victory, when paris took helen away, he violated the trust between guest and host. He took the wife of menelaus (the host) Zeus would punish the one who violates this bond. Why is he murdered: he sacriiced his daughter iphigenia. Wasn"t willing to just turn back he knew it was wrong to sacriice his daughter but did it to allow expediion to coninue: father atreus and uncle tyhyestes did something horrible. Atreus fed thyestes"s children to thyestes without thyestes knowing. She insists, but he does it to keep her happy.
