Greek Tragedy VI: Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, or the Original Cell Block Tango

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inGreek Tragedy, The Greeks

This is the first play in the Oresteia trilogy. While we we consider the trilogy as a whole after we have read all three plays, the discussion at this point will focus solely on Agamemnon.

Discussion Prompts
  1. What do you think of this play?  
  2. If you aren’t familiar with the story, what do you think will happen next?  
  3. How important are the Furies and Fate?
  4. If you were staging this today, how would you treat Clytaemestra and Cassandra?  What about Aegisthus?

As always, please share your thoughts in the comments.

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I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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