Sunday, October 11, 2009

Courtney Lum

What was most confusing about the play Agamemnon was remembering the names of each character and their relationships to each other, but besides that I found Aeschylus’s play to be an enjoyable and interesting read. One of my favorite things about all Greek (more so Athenian) literature is that each text connects to one another to tell a collective tale about one significant event. For example, the Iliad focuses on Agamemnon and Achilles’ quarrel during the Trojan War, Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon actually deals with the king coming home from the Trojan War and his murder, while the Odyssey begins after Agamemnon’s death and his son, Orestes has avenged his death. These are three different texts from two different authors that all cover the same range of a time period, which therefore creates a complete, detailed collection of that time period that is extremely thorough.

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