Agamemnon

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This paper discusses how the choral odes in Greek tragedy served a very specific purpose in the promotion and explication of the theme. It explains that close familial bonds are interrelated with the tragedy in Agamemnon, as is observed in the relationship between Helen and her sister, Clytemnestra. It claims that the entire play follows the paradoxical theme of deep hate in a context of love.

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"The choral odes in Greek tragedy served a very specific purpose in the promotion and explication of the theme. Close familial bonds are interrelated with the tragedy in Agamemnon as is observed in the relationship between Helen and her sister Clytemnestra. Helen instigated the Trojan War as well as Iphigenia's death, and the entire play follows the paradoxical theme of deep hate in a context of love. The choral ode to be examined (ll. 585-651) is not pure chorus but almost amounts to a conversation between the chorus, Clytemnestra, and the herald. "Early drama was choral, and the life of Attic tragedy ..."

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