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Oresteia
SNG Drama Ljubljana performs an adaptation ofThe Oresteia,in 1968
Written byAeschylus
Original languageGreek
GenreTragedy

TheOresteia(Ancient Greek:Ὀρέστεια) is atrilogyofGreek tragedieswritten byAeschylusin the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder ofAgamemnonbyClytemnestra,the murder of Clytemnestra byOrestes,the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on theHouse of Atreusand the pacification of theFuries(also called Erinyes or Eumenides).

TheOresteiatrilogy consists of three plays:Agamemnon,The Libation Bearers,andThe Eumenides.It shows how theGreek godsinteracted with the characters and influenced their decisions pertaining to events and disputes.[1]The only extant example of anancient Greektheatre trilogy, theOresteia,won first prize at theDionysiafestival in 458 BCE. The principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast betweenrevengeandjustice,as well as the transition from personalvendettato organizedlitigation.[2]Oresteiaoriginally included asatyr play,Proteus(Πρωτεύς), following the tragic trilogy, but all except a single line ofProteushas been lost.[3]

Agamemnon

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See also:Páthei máthos
Agamemnon
The murder ofAgamemnon,from an 1879 illustration fromStories from the Greek Tragediansby Alfred Church
Written byAeschylus
ChorusElders ofArgos
CharactersWatchman
Clytemnestra
Herald
Agamemnon
Messenger
Cassandra
Aegisthus
MuteSoldiers
Servants
SettingArgos, before the royal palace

Agamemnon(Ἀγαμέμνων,Agamémnōn) is the first of the three plays within theOresteiatrilogy. It details the homecoming ofAgamemnon,King ofMycenae,from theTrojan War.After ten years of warfare, Troy had fallen, and all of Greece could lay claim to victory. Waiting at home for Agamemnon is his wife, QueenClytemnestra,who has been planning his murder. She desires his death to avenge the sacrifice of her daughterIphigenia,to exterminate the only thing hindering her from commandeering the crown, and to finally be able to publicly embrace her long-time loverAegisthus.[4]

The play opens with a watchman looking down and over the sea, reporting that he has been lying restless "like a dog" for a year, waiting to see some sort of signal confirming a Greek victory inTroy.He laments the fortunes of the house, but promises to keep silent: "A huge ox has stepped onto my tongue." The watchman sees a light far off in the distance—a bonfire signaling Troy's fall—and is overjoyed at the victory and hopes for the hasty return of his king, as the house has "wallowed" in his absence. Clytemnestra is introduced to the audience, and she declares that there will be celebrations and sacrifices throughout the city as Agamemnon and his army return.[citation needed]

Upon the return of Agamemnon, his wife laments in full view ofArgoshow horrible the wait for her husband and King has been. After her soliloquy, Clytemnestra pleads with and persuades Agamemnon to walk on the robes laid out for him. This is a very ominous moment in the play, as loyalties and motives are questioned. The King's new concubine,Cassandra,is now introduced, and this immediately spawns hatred from the queen, Clytemnestra. Cassandra is ordered out of her chariot and to the altar, where, once she is alone, she begins predicting the death of Agamemnon and her own shared fate.

Inside the house, a cry is heard: Agamemnon has been stabbed in the bathtub. The chorus separates from one another and rambles to themselves, proving their cowardice, when another final cry is heard. When the doors are finally opened, Clytemnestra is seen standing over the dead bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra. Clytemnestra describes the murder in detail to the chorus, showing no sign of remorse or regret. Suddenly, the exiled lover of Clytemnestra, Aegisthus, bursts into the palace to take his place next to her. Aegisthus proudly states that he devised the plan to murder Agamemnon and claim revenge for his father (the father of Aegisthus, Thyestes, was tricked into eating two of his sons by his brother Atreus, the father of Agamemnon). Clytemnestra claims that she and Aegisthus now have all the power, and they re-enter the palace with the doors closing behind them.[5]

Like most Greek tragedies,Agamemnonis a morally complex play. Agamemnon may be an admired veteran of the Trojan War but it is made clear that many do not approve of the way he sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia. Many citizens resent Agamemnon because they lost their sons and husbands in the war he initiated. Similarly, Clytemnestra is both her husband's murderer and her daughter's avenger; Aeschylus continues to explore the fundamental moral quandary of vengeance and "justified" bloodshed inThe Libation BearersandThe Eumenides.[6]

The Libation Bearers

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The Libation Bearers
Orestes, Electra and Hermes in front of Agamemnon's tombby Choephoroi Painter
Written byAeschylus
ChorusSlave women
Characters
Setting

InThe Libation Bearers(Χοηφόροι,Choēphóroi)—the second play of Aeschylus'Oresteiatrilogy—many years after the murder ofAgamemnon,his sonOrestesreturns toArgoswith his cousin Pylades to exact vengeance onClytemnestra,as an order fromApollo,for killing Agamemnon.[7]Upon arriving, Orestes reunites with his sisterElectraat Agamemnon's grave, while she was there bringinglibationsto Agamemnon in an attempt to stop Clytemnestra's bad dreams.[8]Shortly after the reunion, both Orestes and Electra, influenced by the Chorus, come up with a plan to kill both Clytemnestra andAegisthus.[9]

Orestes then goes to the palace door, where he is greeted by Clytemnestra. He pretends he is a stranger and tells Clytemnestra that he (Orestes) is dead, causing her to send for Aegisthus. Unrecognized, Orestes is then able to enter the palace, where he then kills Aegisthus, who was without a guard due to the intervention of the chorus in relaying Clytemnestra's message.[10]Clytemnestra then enters the room. Orestes hesitates to kill her, but Pylades reminds him of Apollo's orders, and he eventually follows through.[8]Consequently, after committing the matricide, Orestes is now the target of theFuries' merciless wrath and has no choice but to flee from the palace.[10]

Chorus

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TheChorusinThe Libation Bearersis distinctly different than the one inAgamemnon.FromAgamemnontoThe Libation Bearers,the Chorus switches from a collection of old, Argive men, to foreign slave women.[11]p.46-48Furthermore, the Chorus inAgamemnonpossessed a fearful voice, characterized by their critical commentary on the events and characters of the play. Despite this, they play a passive role and do not influence the plot.[11]p.47-48In contrast,The Libation Bearers' Chorus desire vengeance, and influence bothElectra'sandOrestes' actions, shepherding Orestes towards revenge.[11]p.48-52

Genealogy of Orestes

The Eumenides

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The Eumenides
Orestes Pursued by the FuriesbyWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau
Written byAeschylus
ChorusTheFuries
Characters
Settingbefore the temple of Apollo atDelphiand in Athens

The final play of theOresteia,calledThe Eumenides(Εὐμενίδες,Eumenídes), illustrates how the sequence of events in the trilogy ends up in the development of social order or a proper judicial system in Athenian society.[1]In this play,Orestesis hunted and tormented by theFuries,a trio of goddesses known to be the instruments of justice, who are also referred to as the "Gracious Ones" (Eumenides). They relentlessly pursue Orestes for the killing of his mother.[12]Through the intervention ofApollo,Orestes is able to escape them for a brief moment while they are asleep and escape to Athens under the protection ofHermes.Seeing the Furies asleep,Clytemnestra's ghost comes to wake them up to obtain justice on her son Orestes for killing her.[13]

After waking up, the Furies hunt Orestes again and when they find him, Orestes pleads to the goddessAthenafor help. She responds by setting up a trial for him inAthenson theAreopagus.This trial is made up of a group of twelve Athenian citizens and is supervised by Athena. Here Orestes is used as a trial dummy by Athena to set-up the first courtroom trial. He is also the object of the Furies, Apollo, and Athena.[1]After the trial comes to an end, the votes are tied. Athena casts the deciding vote and determines that Orestes will not be killed.[14]This does not sit well with the Furies but Athena eventually persuades them to accept the decision; instead of violently retaliating against wrongdoers, become a constructive force of vigilance in Athens. She then changes their names from the Furies to "the Eumenides" which means "the Gracious Ones".[15]Athena then ultimately rules that all trials must henceforth be settled in court rather than being carried out personally.[15]

Proteus

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Proteus(Πρωτεύς,Prōteus), the satyr play which originally followed the first three plays ofThe Oresteia,is lost except for a two-line fragment preserved byAthenaeus.It is widely believed to have been based on the story told in Book IV ofHomer'sOdyssey,where Menelaus, Agamemnon's brother, tries to return home from Troy and finds himself on an island off Egypt, "whither he seems to have been carried by the storm described inAgam.674".[16]

The title character, "the deathless EgyptianProteus",the Old Man of the Sea, is described in Homer as having been visited by Menelaus, who sought to learn his future. Proteus tells Menelaus of the death of Agamemnon at the hands of Aegisthus and the fates ofAjax the LesserandOdysseusat sea. Proteus is compelled to tell Menelaus how to reach home from the island of Pharos:

"The satyrs who may have found themselves on the island as a result of shipwreck... perhaps gave assistance to Menelaus and escaped with him, though he may have had difficulty in ensuring that they keep their hands off Helen."[17]

The only extant fragment that has been definitively attributed toProteuswas translated byHerbert Weir Smyth:

"A wretched piteous dove, in quest of food, dashed amid the winnowing-fans, its breast broken in twain."[3]

In 2002,Theatre Kingstonmounted a production ofThe Oresteiaand included a new reconstruction ofProteusbased on the episode inThe Odysseyand loosely arranged according to the structure of extant satyr plays.[18]

Themes

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Justice through retaliation

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Retaliation is seen in theOresteiato cascade. InAgamemnon,it is mentioned thatAgamemnonhad to sacrifice his innocent daughterIphigeniato shift the wind for his voyage to Troy.[19]This causedClytemnestrato plot revenge onAgamemnon.She found a new loverAegisthusand whenAgamemnonreturned toArgosfrom theTrojan War,Clytemnestra killed him by stabbing him in the bathtub and went on to inherit his throne.[2]The death of Agamemnon thus sparks anger inOrestesandElectra;they plot matricide (the death of their mother Clytemnestra) in the next play,Libation Bearers.Through much pressure from Electra and his cousinPylades,Orestes kills Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus.[19]Consequently,Orestesis hunted down by the Furies in the third playThe Eumenides.Even after he escapes, Clytemnestra's spirit comes back to rally them again so that they can kill Orestes and obtain vengeance for her.[19]However, this cycle of retaliation comes to a stop near the end ofThe EumenideswhenAthenadecides to introduce a new legal system for dealing out justice.[2]

Justice through the law

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Justice through the law is achieved inThe Eumenides.AfterOrestesbeggedAthenafor deliverance from the Furies, she granted him his request in the form of a trial.[1]Rather than forgiving Orestes directly, Athena put him to trial to find a just answer to the question of his innocence. This is the first example of proper litigation in the trilogy and illuminates the change from emotional retaliation to civilized decisions regarding alleged crimes.[20]Instead of allowing the Furies to tortureOrestes,she decided that she would have both the Furies and Orestes plead their case before she decided on the verdict. In addition,Athenaset up how the verdict would be decided. By creating this blueprint, the future of revenge-killings and the merciless hunting of the Furies would be eliminated from Greece. The trial sets the foundation for future litigation.[14]Aeschylus, through his jury trial, was able to create and maintain a social commentary about the limitations of revenge crimes and reiterate the importance of trials.[21]The Oresteia,as a whole, stands as a representation of the evolution of justice in Ancient Greece.[22]

Revenge

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Revenge is a principal motivator for most characters inOresteia.The theme starts inAgamemnonwith Clytemnestra, who murders her husband, Agamemnon, in order to obtain vengeance for his sacrificing of their daughter, Iphigenia. The death of Cassandra, the princess of Troy, taken captive by Agamemnon in order to fill a place as a concubine, can also be seen as an act of revenge for taking another woman as well as the life of Iphigenia.[23]Later on, inThe Libation Bearers,Orestes and Electra (siblings and remaining children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) succeed in killing their mother to avenge their father's death.[24]InThe Eumenides,the Furies—goddesses of vengeance—seek to take revenge on Orestes for the murder of his mother. It is also discovered that the god Apollo played a part in the act of vengeance toward Clytemnestra through Orestes. The cycle of revenge is seen to be broken when Orestes is not killed by the Furies, but is instead given his freedom and deemed innocent by the goddess Athena.[25][26]

Mother-right and father-right

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To the anthropologistJohann Jakob Bachofen(Das Mutterrecht,1861), theOresteiashows Ancient Greece's transition from "hetaerism" (polyamory) tomonogamy;and from "mother-right" (matriarchallineage) to "father-right" (patriarchallineage). According to Bachofen, religious laws changed in this period: the Apollo and Athena ofThe Eumenidespresent the patriarchal view. The Furies contrast what they call "gods of new descent" with the view that matricide is more serious than the killing of men. With Athena acquitting Orestes, and the Furies working for the new gods,The Eumenidesshows the newfound dominance of father-right over mother-right.[27]

Bachofen's interpretation was influential amongMarxistsandfeminists.FeministSimone de Beauvoirwrote inThe Second Sex(1949) that the tribunal saw Orestes as son of Agamemnon before being son of Clytemnestra.[28]InThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State(1884), MarxistFriedrich Engelspraises Bachofen's "correct interpretation". Nonetheless, he sees it as "pure mysticism" by Bachofen to see the change in divine perspectives as the cause of the change in Greek society.[27]Instead, Engels considers economic factors—the creation ofprivate property—and the "natural sexual behaviour" of men and women. For the feministKate Millett,the latter factor is mistaken, andThe Eumenidesis important in documenting the state's arguments for repression of women.[28]

Matricide and femininity

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Electra's role in the murder of her mother has been hotly contested by scholars throughout time. Many view Electra's by-proxy killing of her mother as a representation of daughter-inflicted matricide.

PsychoanalystCarl Jungattributes her behavior to what he coined as the"Electra Complex,"the jealousy of the daughter towards the mother for her sexual engagement with the father.Sigmund Freuddisagreed with this claim, noting that the"Oedipus Complex"cannot be applied directly to the female sex, since daughters do not undergo the samepenis-envyas sons.[29]Many contemporary scholars have theorized what this matricide means in the context of womanhood: Dana Tor invokes Lacan to argue that Electra's scheming represents a "ravage" between mother and daughter; Doris Bernstein sees the murder as a step on the path towards Electra's individuation; and Melanie Klein views it as emblematic of the dual power of the psyche to split of the mother into a good object and a bad one.[30]Serena Heller recalls Ronald Britton's idea of theAthene-Antigone Complexto explain Electra's hatred of her mother deriving from an intense idolization of her father and, thus, a compulsion to exonerate herself from the restraints of feminity and the female body.[31]Once the girl recognizes her gendered difference in the world, she must undergo re-cognition, deciding whether to mourn the maleness that she does not possess, or engage in a choice which frees them from their gendered bind. Athene, Antigone, and Electra all have a desire for "female castration" that dictates their choices in their patriarchal societies.[32]Amber Jacobs also claims that the matricide in the Oresteia ultimately embodies a societal repulsion towards the female gender, as Athena's motherless status allows Zeus to argue that the father is more important than the mother and absolve Orestes of his crimes.[33]Tor ultimately claims that the convergence of both Orestes' and Electra's motivations for revenge are two-fold: both a repayment for the debt of desire and a symbol of femininejouissance.[30]They must repay their Freudian or Jungian debts from the guilt of want. Their jouissance in her death arises from a pre-genital dichotomy of love and hatred from the son and the daughter towards the mother.

Professor of philosophical and historical anthropology Elizabeth von Samsonow notes the intense debate over Electra's relevance in the murder of Clymenestra—Sophocles,for example, viewed her as a key component of the killing whileAeschylussees her as incidental—but refutes the tendency to shoehorn her motivations into Freud's model. She asks for scholars to reconsider Electra as undergoing vagina-envy, resulting from the woman's powerful and sexually-active position in pre-Hellenic society. By liberating Electra from the male-centric complexes and histories that restrict her motivations, study of mother-daughter relations can evolve into an "outline of a future world."[34]In another of her works, Jacobs, too, writes on the untheorized state of matricide in literature and asks for an expansion of symbolism beyond the classic Oedipean model.[35]

Relation to the Curse of the House of Atreus

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The House ofAtreusbegan withTantalus,son of Zeus, who murdered his son,Pelops,and attempted to feed him to the gods. The gods, however, were not tricked and banished Tantalus to the Underworld and brought his son back to life. Later in life Pelops and his family line were cursed byMyrtilus,a son of Hermes, catalyzing the curse of the House of Atreus. Pelops had two children, Atreus andThyestes,who are said to have killed their half-brother Chrysippus, and were therefore banished.[citation needed]

Thyestes andAerope,Atreus’ wife, were found out to be having an affair, and in an act of vengeance, Atreus murdered his brother's sons, cooked them, and then fed them to Thyestes. Thyestes had a son with his daughter and named him Aegisthus, who went on to kill Atreus.[citation needed]

Atreus’ children wereAgamemnon,Menelaus,andAnaxibia.Leading up to here, we can see that the curse of the House of Atreus was one forged from murder, incest and deceit, and continued in this way for generations through the family line. To put it simply, the curse demands blood for blood, a never ending cycle of murder within the family.[citation needed]

Those who join the family seem to play a part in the curse as well, as seen in Clytemnestra when she murders her husband Agamemnon, in revenge for sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia.[36]Orestes, goaded by his sister Electra, murders Clytemnestra in order to exact revenge for her killing his father.[citation needed]

Orestes is said to be the end of the curse of the House of Atreus. The curse holds a major part in theOresteiaand is mentioned in it multiple times, showing that many of the characters are very aware of the curse's existence. Aeschylus was able to use the curse in his play as an ideal formulation of tragedy in his writing.[citation needed]

Contemporary background

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Some scholars believe that the trilogy is influenced by contemporary political developments in Athens. A few years previously, legislation sponsored by the democratic reformerEphialteshad stripped the court of theAreopagus,hitherto one of the most powerful vehicles of upper-class political power, of all of its functions except some minor religious duties and the authority to try homicide cases; By having his story being resolved by a judgement of the Areopagus, Aeschylus may be expressing his approval of this reform. It may also be significant that Aeschylus makes Agamemnon lord of Argos, where Homer puts his house, instead of his nearby capitol, Mycenae, since about this time Athens had entered into an alliance with Argos.[37]

Adaptations

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Key British productions

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In 1981,Sir Peter HalldirectedTony Harrison's adaptation of the trilogy in masks in London'sRoyal National Theatre,with music byHarrison Birtwistleand stage design byJocelyn Herbert.[38][39][40]In 1999,Katie Mitchellfollowed him at the same venue (though in the Cottesloe Theatre, where Hall had directed in the Olivier Theatre) with a production which usedTed Hughes' translation.[41]In 2015,Robert Icke's production of his own adaptation was a sold out hit at theAlmeida Theatreand was transferred that same year to theWest End'sTrafalgar Studios.[42]Two other productions happened in the UK that year, in Manchester and atShakespeare's Globe.[43] The following year, in 2016, playwrightZinnie Harrispremiered her adaptation,This Restless House,at theCitizen's Theatreto five-star critical acclaim.[44]

Chronology of adaptations

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Translations

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See also

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