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Agamemnon15a.ppt
Myths of Return:
Agamemnon and Mycenae
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Lion Gate
Mycenae
ca. 1300
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Royal Cemetery
ca. 1500 B.C.
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Mask of Agamemnon: Family Curse
Orestia trilogy = Orestes
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Divine Succession Crisis/
House of Agamemnon
Geneology alluded to by
Aeschylus
(5th cent.
B.C.)
Mythical Time
Always the past
Bronze Age
Present Narrator
CHRONOLOGY
Theogony
Homeric Hymns
Early Generation
of kings
Homeric heroes
(Trojan war
and return)
End of Age of Heroes
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Zeus
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Tantalus
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Pelops
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Atreus ---------------------------------------------- Thyestes
Menelaus + Helen .... Agamemnon + Clytemnestra .... Aegisthus, Main course, Dessert
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Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes
HUMAN SUCCESSION CRISIS, BLOOD FEUD WITHIN FAMILY
Background of Agamemnon,
Aeschylus
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Tantalus:
Crime and Punishment
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Tantalus vs. Pelops: P. gets the girl
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Pelops is an aition for Peloponnese
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Grave of Pelops, Olympia
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Zeus
|
Tantalus
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Pelops
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Atreus ---------------------------------------------- Thyestes
Menelaus + Helen .... Agamemnon + Clytemnestra .... Aegisthus, Main course, Dessert
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Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes
HUMAN SUCCESSION CRISIS, BLOOD FEUD WITHIN FAMILY
Background of Oresteia,
Aeschylus
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What does the geneology tell us about
Agamemnon’s family characteristics?
Disputes over succession
Acts of hubris against gods, cursed (passed down the blood line)
Improper eating (cannabalism and killing within family)
Improper sex roles
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