172b - Aeschylus: Bert Dreyfus on Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Furies and the Eumenides, Pouring Out of Libations, Athenian Tragedy, and the Pessimism of the Greeks

Music Credit: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 30 performed by Paavali Jumppanen, available on Museopen.The Alan Shapiro translation of the Oresteia is my favorite.Another episode (Hemlock #5) I did about Aeschylus can be found here. It talks in greater depth about the metaphor of the net, and centers Clytemnestra as the hero/main character of the post-Trojan scene.For fun and profit: reading the Wikipedia page on the Eleusinian Mysteries.He who learns, must suffer.Even in our sleep, pain: which time cannot forgetFalls drop by drop upon the heart.Until, in the fullness of time, against our will and in our despairThrough the awful grace of GodComes wisdom--Aeschylus, Agamemnon