Since I do not own a copy of the Greek original, the following summary of Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” is based on an English translation of the tragedy which Moses Hadas has included in an anthology entitled “Greek Drama,” a Bantum Classic. A.W. Verrall is the translator. The play begins with a prologue spoken by a watchman. ...
In classic Greek literature, the deities of the period were often represented in various different manners, from insignificant to much more substantial. Minor roles might simply have consisted of a character or chorus mentioning a particular god in speech, possibly by impulse, or insinuations throughout a play that the gods were actively involved in current ...
Aeschylus was a dramatist who lived in the ancient Greek city of Athens. He treats his native city with honor in a drama entitled “Eumenides.” “Eumenides” is a somewhat unusual tragedy. No one dies, and it has a happy ending. However, it is the third play of a trilogy in which there is plenty of ...
Sigmund Freud’s well-known theory of the Oedipus complex “explain[s] the maturation of the infant boy through identification with the father and desire for the mother” (“Oedipus complex”). Perhaps less well-known is the female counterpart to this theory, the Electra complex. The theory, developed by Freud and coined by psychiatrist Carl Jung in reference to a ...
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