{"id":8225,"date":"2024-10-23T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geds.ch\/GEDSWEB\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=8225"},"modified":"2024-10-23T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:58:04","slug":"agamemnon-by-aischylos-translated-by-robert-potter","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.geds.ch\/GEDSWEB\/event\/agamemnon-by-aischylos-translated-by-robert-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Agamemnon by Aeschylus translated by Robert Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-8225\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-8225-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-8225-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-8225-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>Number of roles: ten; five ladies and five gentlemen<\/p>\n<p>King Agamemnon, chief leader of the Greek armies, after ten years, returns victorious from the Trojan War to Argos. In his entourage, he is leading Cassandra, daughter of the slain King Priamos of Troy, as his captive and concubine \u2013 the seer, who was cursed to always predict the truth, but never to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>Agamemnon\u2019s wife, Queen Clytemnestra, has not forgotten that, at the outset of the war, the king had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis in order to obtain favourable winds for the Greek fleet on their sail to Troy. Clytemnestra, plotting with her lover Aigisthos, perfidiously invites Agamemnon to enter the palace on a purple carpet, suggests him to repose in the bathroom, and \u2013 while he changes his dress \u2013 treacherously murders him.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, Clytemnestra and Aigisthos are ruling Argos with an iron fist, having suppressed the citizens through intimidation and imprisonment, and enslaved the captives carried off from Troy. Electra, daughter of Clytemnestra and the late King Agamemnon, together with a procession of Trojan servants, the Libation Bearers, produces offerings to Agamemnon\u2019s tomb.<\/p>\n<p>She desperately hopes for the unlikely return of her brother Orestes, who has been growing up at a distant court since before their father\u2019s death. Against all odds, Orestes returns, is reunited with his sister, and takes revenge on Aigisthos \u2013 and his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Though, having committed matricide \u2013 the most heinous crime in Ancient Greece \u2013 Orestes will now be hunted by the Furies, the goddesses of vengeance. 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