This is tale is the source of the term Trojan Horse , used to describe any supposed gift that contains the seeds of disaster, as well as the old saying, "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts. In the most famous story, Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus, came home to a very unhappy household in his kingdom of Mycenae after the Trojan War. His wife, Clytemnestra, was still justifiably furious that he had sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia , in order to get fair sailing winds to sail to Troy.
Bitterly vengeful toward Agamemnon, Clytemnestra Helen's half-sister , had taken Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus as her lover while her husband was away fighting the Trojan war. Aegisthus was the son of Agamemnon's uncle, Thyestes, and Thyestes's daughter, Pelopia. Clytemnestra had installed herself up as the supreme queen while Agamemnon was away, but her bitterness increased when he returned from the war not repentant, but in the company of another woman, a concubine—a concubine, the Trojan prophetess-princess—as well as according to some sources his children borne by Cassandra.
Clytemnestra's vengefulness saw no bounds. Various stories tell different versions of the exact way Agamemnon died, but the essence is that Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered him in cold blood, out of vengeance for Iphigenia's death and other slights he had perpetrated against them. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, demonized in later Greek tragedy , ruled Mycenae for a time after dispatching with Agamemnon and Cassandra, but when her son by Agamemnon, Orestes, returned to Mycenae, he murdered them both, as beautifully told in Euripides's "Oresteia.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification. While Telemachus strictly observes every divine law, the suitors carouse with wanton abandon, uninvited, in his home. While Telemachus impresses his hosts, the suitors plot to murder theirs. This exploration of the idea of hospitality thus provides a background against which the contrast between the suitors and Telemachus is sharpened, a contrast already emphasized by the frequent repetition of the story of Agamemnon.
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The use of the vocative even here, however, is not intended to deny a positive relationship between Zeus and Athena, when used by Hera in disgust Iliad 2. We will meet this same descriptive term characterizing Agamemnon again in Chapter 4, where, in considering his conduct in Iliad 2. We note a reference to contrary divine activity, a regular feature that reminds us of the dual nature of causality in Homer brought out explicitly by Nestor in this instance.
We will return to the question of Homeric causality in greater detail in Chapter 4, s. On irony, see also Chapter 2. See Parker et passim on issues of pollution and purification; see Nilsson —77 and LfgrE , s.
Nordheider , on Zeus xenios. Chantraine —, s. The first overt reference within Greek literature to whose house the hearth is actually in where one comes, is found and for emphasis only in Aeschylus Eumenides.
In other places, the poet uses only a singular noun, with or without an epithet. Iliad 1. On the supervising singer led off by Aigisthos to a desert island, see Odyssey 3.
See Danek —93 , however, for caution against more speculative neoanalytical readings. This is the only reference to the matricide in Homer that I am aware of. Chantraine , s. It is traditionally the place where ships are blown off course, as Danek notes. We will return to consider this point in greater detail. The formulaic element, found twice in the Iliad 2.
The sole exception to the use of this epithet is really present metri causa in Iliad 2. West in Heubeck, West, and Hainsworth Danek rejects this idea.
The system of dual kingship, however, could have originated much earlier, during the Dorian influx after BC, since it might have represented an ameliorating response between two ethnic groups. The first mention of dual kingship other than this possible reference in Homer occurs in Herodotus 6. On the whole question, see Fraser , Murray —, and Cartledge —67; — On the larger meaning of Argos, see Wace and Stubbings — This, it seems to me, is a missing component to the otherwise excellent observations of Bill — See West in Heubeck, West, and Hainsworth — for disputes over the exact extent of territory and the implications of toponyms related to the kingdoms of the Atreidai in the Peloponnesus.
The idiom minimally suggests that Thyestes, and Aigisthos before him, lived out of view of the public eye. I am indebted to Richard Janko, in private communication, for noting these last two examples of correctio.
Securing details from early poets like Stesichorus is difficult because of the fragmentary and secondary nature of the material Davies is of little help; see Neshke , on the fragmenta.
Pindar Pythian 11 mentions the killing of Iphigeneia and the presence of Cassandra, but clearly Pindar did not invent his illustrations. It is within Aeschylus see Garvie ix—xli that clear evidence of story details of the House of Atreus including the Oresteia is found.
For a detailed collection of the iconographic evidence, see Prag and Knopfler For an outline of the myth, see Gantz , —, Nor should we assume that the performance of the Iliad and Odyssey necessarily called for the same sort of rendition by the poet regardless of whether or not the Iliad and Odyssey were sung by the same poet.
Janko ; cf. Fowler bn Yet, the question is not easily answered, since the process of textualization is itself a vexed one. In Odyssey The difficulty with this view poses, however, is that the wrath of Achilles would then be based, not upon dissention between Achilles and Agamemnon as in the Iliad we know , but between Achilles and Odysseus cf.
Nagy suggests, for example, a convergence in themes between this story in the Odyssey and the embassy in Iliad 9. It is a question of arrangement. See for instance Iliad 1. The institution of an oracle at Pytho cannot be securely dated earlier than the eighth century Fontenrose The other common place of oracular consultation but filling different metrical positions is Piraean Dodona: Iliad Both phrases likely mean the same thing. Reece observes that this is the only Homeric hospitality scene in which the host is not at home when the guests arrive; Cf.
Schein This is quite in keeping with the other type scene inversions found in the Polyphemos episode, as Reece — notes. Iliad He notes the proclivity in Odyssey 1. Odyssey This full address to Agamemnon is also used in Iliad 2.
Yet, other fuller expressions are available, as Friedrich has shown. For example, Iliad 1. Thucydides 1. Strabo 1. On piracy and heroes, see Souza — On the cardinal point, see Race — This formula is likewise found in Odyssey On the summary priamel, see Race The conflict caused by the homecoming hero with concubine in tow will also be considered in more detail there. I will simply note here, as Danek persuasively argues, that this tension is already present for Homer within his tradition, where Agamemnon is remembered as thoughtlessly naive.
This would add to the suspense of the scene, though the audience was aware that Penelope would be faithful and secure for Odysseus a safe nostos. The use of the first part of this well attested idiom also occurs in three other places beyond those I note here Iliad In the Odyssey , it is first used of Menelaos, vexed by the lack of hospitality shown by his servant to Telemachos and Peisistratos 4. The other instances of its use include: Patroklos to Hector Iliad Chantraine — notes its onomatopoeic nature.
Hoekstra in Heubeck and Hoekstra ; cf. The use of the future infinitive, however, does suggest futurity Chantraine and also immediacy Monro ; Chantraine in the expected outcome. I also see it as part of an overall emphasis in the Odyssey on human motivation and self-responsibility—an increasing humanism an emphasis one may legitimately contrast with that of the Iliad.
See my comments in Chapter 2 s. The first words of Telemachos to the disguised Odysseus Odyssey On the possibility of variable nostoi even for Odysseus e. But what he finds there must always to some degree hang in the balance. She herself was captured, and then killed.
Cassandra also predicts her own death to the Argive elders. In the course of her prophetic frenzy, Cassandra cries out to Apollo, who is a god of, among other things, prophecy.
Thus, Cassandra regards Apollo as her destroyer and his causing of her prophecies not to be believed may be the source of this destruction.
Cassandra died in Mycenae, murdered along with Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He died during the return home, having offended both Athena and Poseidon. Alexios and Kassandra are portrayed through performance capture by Michael Antonakos and Melissanthi Mahut respectively. Kassandra is perceived as a demigod due to her abilities, but she, nor the Isu the ones who came before are gods, only revered as such. I thought she will become an assassin.
But ignoring assassins only lead them more trouble as she mentioned. Now finally she want Balance between them and according to prophecy, Layla is the one who can do this so she gave her staff. First off, if you kill Nikolaos, you will lose a whole questline that prominently features the Wolf of Sparta later on in the game.
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