Talk:The Oresteia

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Contents 1 Comments 2 Idomeneo 3 The Furies 4 Harry Potter 5 Bouguereau painting title? 6 The Libation Bearers

[edit] Comments

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)

[edit] The Furies

I think the furies' wrath is a little more than annoying-- they're trying to kill orestese by sucking the blood from his body. I think there are several mistakes in general in the article about The Eumenides.

[edit] Harry Potter

I have removed the Harry Potter reference. It's solely an epigraph to one of the novels. --Tony Sidaway 00:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Good catch. I missed the forest for the trees there. What about the other references in this article? Are some of them borderline as well? Do you feel like pruning them if they feel excessively frivolous or tangential? Carcharoth 03:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Ah. I see the article has a history. I should have checked before changing motto to epigraph. Carcharoth 03:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

The quote keeps coming back in, but the references are interesting, so I'll put them here in case anything comes of them: here and here. Carcharoth 13:41, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bouguereau painting title?

To my knowledge, it's Orestes wird von den Furien verfolgt "Orestes pursued by the Furies." Ifnkovhg (talk) 08:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Libation Bearers

What is the correct alternate name for The Libation Bearers? I've seen translations using Choephoroe, Choephorae, and Choephori. Thanks in anticipation. - Mtmelendez ^(Talk) 13:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The first one is (in my experience) most common; sometimes you'll find the ending -oi. The second one is new to me, but the feminine ending is appropriate seeing as how the chorus is made up of female slaves. Ifnkovhg (talk) 01:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)