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Now that the dust has settled, who was in the wrong here?
>Agamemnon is torn between his duty to go to war and his filial duty to protect his daughter
>Clytamenstra torn between two filial duties: loyalty to her husband and avenging her daughter
>Orestes torn between two similar filial duties: loyalty to his mother and avenging his father
In all three cases each character chooses the violent (perhaps affirmative?) option.
Or maybe no one was in the wrong, and the tragedy lies in the house of Agamemnon being conspired against by forces out of their control?
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Just Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Agamemnon wasn't at all guilty for going to war, though Clytemnestra did think he was immensely guilty of failing to protect his daughter, but the main problem that he should be guilty about is bringing another woman into the house. Orestes was correct in avenging his father as the father is at the top of the family's hierarchy and is ultimately absolved by the gods for his guilt.
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>>9854916
>but the main problem that he should be guilty about is bringing another woman into the house
You mean Cassandra? But wasn't it common for them to bring back dozens of woman-slaves after a war? Also, you seem to be implying that Clytamenstra has more of a duty to her husband than to her daughter.
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>>9854907
It's a Greek tragedy, man. As soon as you find yourself as character in a Greek tragedy, you're as good as fucked. Whatever you do, you just can't win.
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>>9856515
Not nearly as fucked as the time I started ID'ing with characters in Plato's Symposium if you comprehend what I intend
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Miasma is a supernatural power with an independent life of its own which makes catastrophe contagious and gets the family extinct, see: >>9856515
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