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Page 57
... Orestes had been encouraged , even commanded , by Apollo to carry it through . Neverthe- less , when he had displayed the bodies and defended his act , the Furies ( Eumenides ) , or spirits of retribution , appeared to him and drove him ...
... Orestes had been encouraged , even commanded , by Apollo to carry it through . Neverthe- less , when he had displayed the bodies and defended his act , the Furies ( Eumenides ) , or spirits of retribution , appeared to him and drove him ...
Page 73
... Orestes poses as a traveling merchant who brings news of the death of Orestes ; Clytaemestra , with archaic and stately courtesy , invites him in and sends for ... Orestes and Electra are , like those of [ 73 ] Introduction to the Oresteia.
... Orestes poses as a traveling merchant who brings news of the death of Orestes ; Clytaemestra , with archaic and stately courtesy , invites him in and sends for ... Orestes and Electra are , like those of [ 73 ] Introduction to the Oresteia.
Page 75
... Orestes at the end has done a brutal , necessary job . Like Clytaemestra at the close of Agamemnon , Orestes defends his posi- tion in terms of : " I have cleared my house . It was bloody , but necessary . Now we can have peace . " As ...
... Orestes at the end has done a brutal , necessary job . Like Clytaemestra at the close of Agamemnon , Orestes defends his posi- tion in terms of : " I have cleared my house . It was bloody , but necessary . Now we can have peace . " As ...
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HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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