Allen Romano
AI and ML Engineer | Humanist | Entrepreneur | recovering Classicist
AESCHYLUS V
— Allen J. Romano, allenjromano@gmail.com
Week 5: Innovation
1.0 Tetralogies
3 known connected tetralogies:
- Laius, Oedipus, Seven Against Thebes, Sphinx
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides, Proteus
- Edonoi, Bassaridae, Neoniskoi, Lykurgos
8 suspected: -
Egyptians, Suppliants, Danaids, Amymone
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+ 7 others
Tetralogies = 3 tragedies + satyr play
Oresteia
458 BCE, 1st prize
484 BCE
Aeschylus First Victory
472
Persians
468
Sophocles' First competition
?463
Suppliants
467
Seven Against Thebes
458
Oresteia
1.1 Myth and Innovation
note: this "Plouto" is a woman, not = Hades
Tantalus
An imp
note: this "Plouto" is a woman, not = Hades
Pelops
Also cursed
note: this "Plouto" is a woman, not = Hades
Atreus and Thyestes
Third time's a charm
note: this "Plouto" is a woman, not = Hades
Death Mask of "Agamemnon"
Not Clytemnestra's Bath (but bronze age, Pylos)
"Treasury of Atreus" = big tholos tomb @Mycenae
1.2 Agamemnon
2.1 Choephori
aka "Libation Bearers"
2.2 "Eumenides"
aka Furies (Erinyes), Semnai Theai (= "Blessed Goddess")
2.3 What Modern Theater Hides
Aeschylus 5
By Allen Romano
