Answer: The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides were the last tragedies composed by Aeschylus, and were produced in 458 [B.C.], two years before his death, along with the satiric drama Proteus. The tetralogy as a whole was called the Oresteia, a name which, whether due to Aeschylus or not, appears to have been in use at any rate as early as the time of Aristophanes. The contents of the Proteus are unknown, and its connection with the preceding tragedies obscure; but it probably dealt with the fortunes of Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, and related the story of his detention on the coast of Egypt, and his rescue by the help of Proteus, the sea-god....Read More.
Analyze the theme of hereditary guilt in the play Agamemnon.
1. Analyze the theme of hereditary
guilt in the play Agamemnon.
Answer: The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides were the
last tragedies composed by Aeschylus, and were produced in 458
[B.C.], two years before his death, along with the satiric drama
Proteus. The tetralogy as a whole was called the Oresteia, a name
which, whether due to Aeschylus or not, appears to have been in
use at any rate as early as the time of Aristophanes. The contents
of the Proteus are unknown, and its connection with the preceding
tragedies obscure; but it probably dealt with the fortunes of
Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, and related the story of his
detention on the coast of Egypt, and his rescue by the help of
Proteus, the sea-god....Read More.
![Analyze the theme of hereditary
guilt in the play Agamemnon.
Answer: The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides were the
last tragedies composed by Aeschylus, and were produced in 458
[B.C.], two years before his death, along with the satiric drama
Proteus. The tetralogy as a whole was called the Oresteia, a name
which, whether due to Aeschylus or not, appears to have been in
use at any rate as early as the time of Aristophanes. The contents
of the Proteus are unknown, and its connection with the preceding
tragedies obscure; but it probably dealt with the fortunes of
Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, and related the story of his
detention on the coast of Egypt, and his rescue by the help of
Proteus, the sea-god....Read More.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/analyzethethemeofhereditaryguiltinthe-140613121245-phpapp01/85/Analyze-the-theme-of-hereditary-guilt-in-the-play-Agamemnon-1-320.jpg?cb=1402661704)
