Agamemnon, John Torres

Agamemnon was a very interesting piece. It was interesting to see how the Trojan War was depicted from a different perspective than The Iliad. The dramatic irony was also very interesting. There were a lot of different factors in the irony that contributed to the death of Cassandra and Agamemnon. Between the sacrificing of Agamemnon's daughter, the walking on the carpet that was an act of Hubris and the act of kidnapping Cassandra. Agamemnon was killed because of the sacrificing of his daughter to the gods but the other acts of violence were ironically involved with his death. Also it is debatable that Agamemnon's father's act of feeding his brothers children to his brother. The gods might have taken vengeance on Agamemnon for his fathers heinous crime.