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From Suffering, Knowledge? Aeschylus’ Agamemnon 1

Agenda Performance Project “Leader,” Clytaemnestra on Fire Signals Discussion: Victim or Monster? Or, Is Clytemnestra “Tragic”? Recap & Update Play Intro, Aeschylean Patterns cont’d, etc. 4-oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 2

Performance Project “Leader,” Clytaemnestra on Fire Signals

Discussion: Victim or Monster? Or, Is Clytemnestra “Tragic”?

Is Clytemnestra a monster? For if she is, perhaps she isn't tragic....

Victim or Monster?... 4-oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 6

Recap & Update Play Intro, Aeschylean Patterns cont’d, etc.

Play-Facts Playwright Aeschylus Plays (tetralogy) Oresteia 458 Agamemnon Libation Bearers Eumenides Proteus (lost) Historical context Troubles of oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 8

Backstory... Feast of Thyestes Abduction of Helen Sacrifice of Iphigenia Sack of Troy map genealogy 4-oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 9

Genealogy 4-oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 10

Greece Turkey (Asia Minor) Athens Argos Sparta Troy Aulis Delphi

Epiphany, Formula Aeschylean Epiphany “Tragic Formula” koros (excess, extravagance) hubris (arrogance, violation) ate (delusion, ruin) dike (justice) verbal ambiguity human visual clarity divine to 4-oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 12

Tragic Cycle Crime begets crime Blood guilt Tragic knowing Pathei mathos (“from suffering, knowledge”) 4-oct-1113 aeschylus agamemnon 1

Aristotelian Elements Reversal(s)? peripeteia Recognition(s)? anagnorisis Hamartia? Pity? Fear? 4-oct-1114 aeschylus agamemnon 1

Prologue (pp. Penguin 103 f.) Watchman Parodos (105 ff.) Entry march (recited). misgivings: expedition Lyric (sung, danced). portent of eagles and hare 1st episode (112 ff.) Leader, Clyt. Fire signals 1st stasimon (117 ff.) Paris’ crime 2nd episode (121 ff.) Herald, Leader, Clyt. Victory. Menelaus lost? 2nd stasimon (129 ff.) Helen’s blood wedding 3rd episode (132 ff.) Chorus (reciting). Ag., Clyt. Red- carpet welcome 3rd stasimon (141 ff.) Foreboding 4th episode (143 ff.) Clyt., Leader. Cassandra to enter palace Cass., Leader, whole Chorus. Cass.’s visions (spoken, sung) Choral recitation (158) Perils of power Choral scene (159) Leader, whole Chorus, Ag. (offstage) Exodos (160 ff.) Clyt., Leader. Ekkuklēma with corpses Clyt., Chorus (lyric dialogue). Recriminations Clyt., Aegisthus, Leader (dialogue). Gloating in victory, more recriminations Agamemnon: Analysis

Associative Poetics Lyric exposition: parodos... 1.Portent: eagles, hare. 2.Artemis’ anger. 3.Clytemnestra’s stewardship. 4.Hymn to Zeus. 5.Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Imagery: fire signals, carpet “The terror raging back and back in the future /... Memory womb of Fury child-avenging fury!” (Calchas’ prayer, quoted Chorus, p. 109) map 4-oct-11 aeschylus agamemnon 1 16