CL 28 - Classical Mythology

Lectures 28-29 - The House of Atreus

Tantalus of Lydia
Pelops
King Oenomaus of Pisa, Elis
Hippodamia, his daughter
Myrtilus, king's charoteer
Sons of Pelops - Pittheus, Chrysippus, Thyestes and Atreus
Agamemnon, leader of the Greek army at Troy
Clytemnestra, his wife
Orestes, their son
Electra, their daughter
Iphigenia, their daughter, sacrificed at Aulis
Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover
Cassandra, a Trojan priestess, captured by Agamemnon
Atreus, the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus
Aerope, their mother
Pelopia
Thyestes, father of Aegisthus
Strophius of Phocis
Apollo
Furies (the Erinyes), nighttime spirits of vengeance
Eumenides, the Kindly Ones, the Furies after their transformation
Pylades

Pisa, Elis
Sicyon
Peloponnese ("island of Pelops")
Mycenae
Oresteia, story of Orestes (Agamemnon, Choephoroe or Libation Bearers, Eumenides)
Delphi, Phocis 

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.)
Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.) 

IMAGES

• Detail: Pelops and Hippodameia in his chariot. Attic Red-figure rope-handled amphora, ca. 410. From Casalta at Lucignano. H. 54 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Plate 225
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• Lion Gate entrance to the Citadel at Mycenae, ca. 1250 BC. Exterior view with Cyclopean walls. UT Saskia CD 1 - JGA0076
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• Electra and Orestes at the Tomb of Agamemnon. Red Figure vase.
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• Orestes at Delphi  in the Sanctaury of Apollo. Orestes seeks sanctuary at the omphalos while Apollo expels the Furies/Eumenides. Red Figure vase.
  

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