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Classical Mythology The House of Atreus

The House of Dardanus and the House of Atreus.

Ioli Kaliopi Sifakaki, Tantalus Dinner. London, Royal College of Art, Summer Graduate Show, 2009.

Model of Temple of Zeus, Olympia, ~

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Adrastus and Thyestes at Sicyon. South Italian red- figure calyx krater, by the Darius Painter, ca 325. A scene from Sophocles’ (lost) Thyestes at Sicyon. Bottom: King Adrastus (center) orders Thyestes to yield baby Aegisthus for exposure; Queen Amphithea comforts Pelopeia. Top: Apollo confronts a Fury; Artemis orders Pan to save the baby; the hero Sicyon looks on.

Clytemnestra. Sculpture by Chryssa ( ), ca Megaron Musikis, Athens. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus killing Agamemnon. Attic red figure kalyx krater by the Dokimasia Painter, mid V. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.

Orestes kills Aegisthus. Athenian red- figure pelike by the Berlin Painter, late VI. Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. Orestes pursues Clytemnestra. Lucanian red- figure pot attributed to the Amykos Painter, Paris, Louvre Museum.

Orestes being purified by Apollo as Clytemnestra tries to awake the sleeping Erinyes. South Italian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370. Paris, Louvre.

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus killing Agamemnon. Attic red figure kalyx krater by the Dokimasia Painter, mid V. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458. Agamemnon.

Scenes from Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, dir by Niketi Kontouri. Kozani, 2013.

Electra and Orestes at the Tomb of Agamemnon. Melian relief, 450s. Paris, Louvre. Possibly a scene from Aeschylus’s Libation Bearers.

Orestes kills Aegisthus. Athenian red- figure pelike by the Berlin Painter, late VI. Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. Orestes pursues Clytaemnestra. Lucanian red- figure pot attributed to the Amykos Painter, Paris, Louvre Museum. Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458. The Libation Bearers.

Orestes being purified by Apollo as Clytemnestra tries to awake the sleeping Erinyes. South Italian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370. Paris, Louvre. Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458. The Eumenides.

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