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Agamemnon:
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Textual Evidence and Argument
Agamemnon
V.
Clytemnestra
Review Questions
- Identify the crime or crimes committed
- What was/were the motive/motives for the crime/crimes?
- What crimes did the opposition commit?
- Why should the crimes of the opposition be considered.
(See Handout)
- What is the nature of Greek justice in Agamemnon? How are disputes mediated?
- What can we infer about the status of men and women from reading Agamemnon?
Objectives
Athena's Verdict
Athena
Mine is the right to add the final vote, / And I award it to Orestes' cause. / For me no mother bore within her womb, / And, save for wedlock evermore eschewed, / I vouch myself the champion of the man, / Not of the woman, yea, with all my soul,- / In heart, as birth, a father's child alone. / Thus will I not too heinously regard / A woman's death who did her husband slay, / The guardian of her home
To continue our examination of justice within Greek society
To analyze gender and its significance in Agamemnon
Prosecution of Clytemnestra
Agamemnon : Justice, Gender, and Ancient Greeks
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