Atreus was delighted with these terms and agreed -- because he had a golden fleece hidden safely away or so he thought. Years earlier, he had promised his best sheep to Artemis as a sacrifice, but when a golden-fleeced sheep appeared among his flocks, he kept the fleece, instead. His wife, Aerope, knew of this impiety and gave the fleece to Thyestes, her lover. In this way, Thyestes triumphed.
However, Atreus was certain that Zeus wanted him to be king, so he declared that as proof Zeus would make the sun rise in the west and set in the east the next day. When this actually happened, Atreus took the throne and banished Thyestes. Atreus soon discovered his wife's infidelity and planned revenge upon Thyestes.
He offered to bury the hatchet and invited him back to Mycenae. When Thyestes returned and was being entertained i. Atreus asked Thyestes if he knew what he had eaten, and then produced their heads and limbs.
Thyestes fled, cursing Atreus' house. He asked the Delphic oracle how to get revenge, and was told that he must have a child by Pelopia, his own daughter. Leaving Delphi at night, Thyestes saw by the light of a sacrificial fire a girl going into a stream near Sicyon. He raped her, but left his sword behind. He did not know that she was in fact Pelopia, and she did not know who he was. Atreus soon found her while searching for Thyestes, and took her as his new wife, replacing the unfaithful Aerope.
She bore Thyestes' son, but Atreus thought that the boy was his. It was beginning to look as if the expedition would be over before it had even started. But mighty Achilles picked up a pebble from the beach and threw it at Cycnus with all the strength he could muster.
Now Cycnus lay dead and when they saw what had happened, the Trojans turned tail and ran all the way back to their battlements, leaving the Greeks to beach their ships and set up an encampment in peace. Meanwhile Menelaus and cunning-tongued Odysseus went to Troy and entered her mighty gates, having been granted safe passage by Antenor, wisest of Priam's advisers.
They addressed the assembled Trojans. We have not come for booty or glory or to make war for no reason. Or would you wage war? And for what? So Troy can be a sanctuary for the world's ravishers? Helen did not come unwillingly.
Indeed she cannot keep her hands off me. She is pleased to have a man in her bed at last. Is it not you who are being violated? Or do you think the Greeks have sailed all this way on a matter of principle, with no thought of booty or your famously beautiful daughters? Then another Trojan spoke out and urged the Trojans to murder the impertinent ambassadors at once, for Paris had bribed him with a large sum of money.
He rushed at Menelaus with his sword, though Menelaus was unarmed. But Antenor and his sons stood in front of them and protected them and escorted them away safely. In gratitude Menelaus gave Antenor a leopardskin. Orestes is the name of a play by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides, which details his story after he commited matricide. Orestes was one of three children born to Agamemnon and his wife, Clytemnestra.
His siblings included Iphigenia and Electra, the eldest of the three. The House of Atreus was cursed and every member of the House was doomed to die an untimely death. It was Orestes who finally ended the curse and brought peace to the House of Atreus.
Although reluctant, Agamemnon agreed to have this done. Agamemnon then went off to fight the Trojan War, and was away for a decade. Strophius took Orestes in and raised him with Pylades, his own son. The two boys grew up together and became very close friends.
When Agamemnon returned from war after ten years, his wife Clytemnestra had a lover called Aegisthus. Together, the pair murdered Agamemnon, since Clytemnestra wanted revenge for the murder-sacrifice of her daughter. When Orestes grew up, he wanted revenge for the murder of his father and so he visited the Delphi oracle to ask what he should do to achieve this.
The Oracle told him that he would have to kill both his mother and her lover. Orestes and his friend Pylades disguised themselves as messengers and went to Mycenae. Clytemnestra welcomes him, professing her love, and orders a carpet of purple robes spread in front of him as he enters the palace. Agamemnon acts coldly toward her, and says that to walk on the carpet would be an act of hubris, or dangerous pride; she badgers him into walking on the robes, however, and he enters the palace.
The Chorus expresses a sense of foreboding, and Clytemnestra comes outside to order Cassandra inside. The Trojan Princess is silent, and the Queen leaves her in frustration. Then Cassandra begins to speak, uttering incoherent prophecies about a curse on the house of Agamemnon.
She tells the Chorus that they will see their king dead, says that she will die as well, and then predicts that an avenger will come. After these bold predictions, she seems resigned to her fate, and enters the house.
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