Talk:The Oresteia

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Can someone please elaborate on Agamemnon 'entering the oikos?' After reading the definition of an oikos, I didn't understand how that fit in the sentence. I'm guessing it's a room? Thank you :]


Anyone else think that Agamemnon (play), The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides should be merged into this article? I think they might as well be like that, otherwise we have four stubby articles instead of one better article (in my opinion, anyway). The three parts aren't really comprehensible apart from each other...but I know other trilogies are split up (the Lord of the Rings trilogy for example). Adam Bishop 02:48, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

That sounds like a very good idea, at least at this stage where the articles are quite small as you said. - Hephaestos 02:54, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Ah, thanks...I was going to get around to doing that, I just didn't have time :) Adam Bishop 20:39, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

According to the Richmond Lattimore translation, Aegisthus is killed first. I hesitate to change this until someone confirms it. Mat334 03:13, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, if you've just read it in the play itself, you are welcome to change it! (I don't remember who dies when and I don't have my copy with me.) Adam Bishop 04:29, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)


I believe that Peter Meineck also produced a translation of the Oresteia. (1998, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN is the copy I'm holding. The ISBN is 0-87220-391-3.)

Shouldn't this page have a "Spoiler Alert" warning? Ramcharanr 22:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Idomeneo

Would it be appropriate to mention, in the section "The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture," that Mozart's opera Idomeneo features Electra as a major character? Really strange character, BTW.

--Sylvia A 22:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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