Agamemnon simply seemed to have more drama and problems in it.
I didn't really like "Libation Bearers," actually. Definitely amusing, to say the least.Agamemnon is surely my favorite of the three in the Oresteia. It just made me smile the subtle turns of phrase which he peppered all around the play. I won't say that I laughed out loud, because I didn't. I thought that they had much more soul than in "Iphigenia at Aulis." Aeschylus paid attention to each character, whether they were main or not.There was also a kind of sly wit in the Agamemnon which was lacking in Iphigenia. Perhaps it was the depth of the characters. And then, when the chorus rebuked her and told her why she was abhorrent and should be exiled, I moved next to them and was nodding again. When she ranted on about how she was right to kill her husband, it was as if I was standing over her shoulder, nodding away. It was as if I was having a conversation with the guard at the beginning, and with the herald, with the chorus, with Clytemnestra and then Agamemnon and definitely with Clytemnestra again. There's something that he did that brought me right up close, face to face with each character.
Still powerful and provocative after 2500 years, these great tragedies offer unparalleled insight into the world of ancient Greece and the origins of the Western dramatic tradition.Īeschylus I is a compilation of the Oresteia trilogy, which is comprised of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides (sometimes called The Furies).I definitely liked Aeschylus's style better than Euripides' (in "Iphigenia at Aulis"). Written in a grand style, rich in diction and dramatic dialoged, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In The Furies (Eumenides), Orestes flees to Delphi, pursued by Apollo, he makes his way to Athens and is there tried (and acquitted) at the court of Areopagus. In The Libation-Bearers (Choephoroi), Orestes, Agamemnon's son, avenges his father by murdering his mother. In Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia before the Trojan War. Among them is this classic trilogy dealing with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote 90 plays, but only seven have survived complete. Old edition is titled Aeschylus I-same book, different cover.
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