Word: agamemnon
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...House of Atreus is an adaptation by John Lewin of Aeschylus' trilogy, The Oresteia. Agamemnon has sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win from the gods a favoring wind that will speed his fleet to Troy. Mad with grief and fury, his Queen, Clytemnestra, awaits the return of the victorious King from the Trojan War, and while he is in his bath she stabs him to death. Aided by his sister Electra, Agamemnon's son Orestes in turn murders both his mother and her lover Aegisthus. Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is tried before the goddess of Athens...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. The man who sacrifices his personal life and family concerns for the sake of his public career is no recent phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripides, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War led him to offer up the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives modern force to an ancient tale...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. The man who sacrifices his personal life and family concerns for the sake of his public career is no recent phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripedes, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War brought him to offer the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives an ancient tale modern force...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of winning a military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...