Agamemnon

Question 1

When did Aeschylus live?

Answer 1

525-455

Question 2

Aeschylus

Answer 2

Father of Tragedy
Fought in Persian wars
Used special effects and dialogue

Question 3

Setting of the play performance

Answer 3

Dionysia (religious festival)

Question 4

Dionysia

Answer 4

Spring, performed plays once, competition, 3 tragedies and 1 Satyr play (separate comedy competition)

Question 5

Date

Answer 5

458

Question 6

Trilogy

Answer 6

Orestia

Question 7

Orestia

Answer 7

Trilogy about the curse of the house of Atreus

Question 8

Plot

Answer 8

Return from Trojan war
Wife kills him
Takes Aegisthus as a husband
Orestes kills his mother
endless cycle broken by legal justice system

Question 9

What does the play show?

Answer 9

Changing world views on war- The Trojan war is portrayed as bad, everyone is miserable, same issues as current Persian war

Question 10

Clytemnestra

Answer 10

Agamemnon’s wife, described like a man

Question 11

What did Agamemnon do that his wife wants to kill him?

Answer 11

Sacrificed their daughter to get good winds

Question 12

Iphigenia

Answer 12

Daughter

Question 13

Cassandra

Answer 13

Trojan princess and prophet, cursed that no one ever believes her prophecies

Question 14

Aegisthus

Answer 14

Agamemnon’s cousin

Question 15

Orestes

Answer 15

Agamemnon’s son, kills his mother