Clytemnestra was a wife of Agamemnon, the king of a legendary Greek kingdom called Mycenae. Agamemnon was famous for being the leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War. Aegisthus, the lover of Clytemnestra, agreed to murder her husband. Aegisthus was warned by the gods that he should not kill Agamemnon.
However, Aegisthus ignored the gruesome signs and omens. Agamemnon returned from the Trojan war as a great hero. Later, Aegisthus invited him to a feast to celebrate the victory. In the middle of the celebration, Agamemnon and his army were brutally killed by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. In a dream, the gods warned him that her son would kill his unfaithful mother.
Orestes murdered his mother on reaching adulthood, so the goddess of vengeance, Furies, began to haunt him. But what is the role of Athena in the story?
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The geographical location of these beacons presents problems, however, as more than one critic has pointed out. The second beacon, lit on Mount Athos, could not have been seen across the one hundred leagues of sea that separate the mountain from the next signal, on "Macistus' sentinel cliffs" The problem with the beacons forms part of the broader question of time in the play. We are told that Troy fell only the night before, yet Agamemnon arrives in Argos the next day--an impossibility, given the distance involved and the storm that supposedly struck the fleet.
Aeschylus compressed events of many months into a single day in order to create dramatic unity a technique often used in Shakespeare's plays , but the key events of the play do occur during a single day. Why would he add the unnecessary detail of the beacon system? Another, more controversial answer has been proposed by a number of critics: Clytemnestra and Aegisthus have had advance word of Troy's fall, but have kept it from the people of Argos until the day before Agamemnon's return.
There is only one beacon, not a system stretching across the Aegean Sea, and Aegisthus lights it to deceive the people of Argos. This explanation accounts for part of the problem of time, but it leads us to question why no one else i.
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