As a reflection on sacrifice, Agamemnon’s Daughter links stories of sacrifice from different times and places—the ancient Greeks, the Russians under Stalin, the Albanians under Hoxha—and ties them into an eternal, universal story.

The myth is even directly invoked by the movie when the children's school administrator states that the daughter wrote a great essay on Iphigenia. Iphigenia and Orestes don't recognize each other (Iphigenia thinks her brother is dead—a key point). Having told her mother not to grieve for her, Iphigeneia, with the help of the chorus, begins the rituals for Artemis and departs to her death. In some ways, he is the iron curtain's equivalent of George Orwell (especially of course his Nineteen Eighty-Four ), except for the obvious difference that his experiences were first-hand. But the significance goes wider too – Suzana’s father has paid with others’ flesh, and his own – and has lost his own soul.Even more than The Successor, Agamemnon’s Daughter describes with clinical lucidity the mechanism of power in a society resembling a concentration camp. Proceedings of the 8th Athens Postgraduate Conference of the Faculty of Philology» volume C - Classics, Athens (2017) 274-288. The priest seized the knife and offered a prayer as he looked for a place to plunge the knife's point. Ancient Greek subjects preserve their relevance in our times through their timeless, profound and comprehensive consideration of the human soul and interpersonal relations, which remain unchanged throughout the centuries in accordance with human nature.

We learn that Agamemnon has sent for his daughter, Iphigeneia, telling her she will marry the Greek hero Achilles.The world described is very much like Stalin's Russia, which, given that Albania went off on its own, makes me wonder: were all communist states so similar? The first pages of the three manuscripts were masked as Albanian translations of works by Siegfried Lenz, before Durand travelled to Tirana to get the remainder of the novels and successfully deposit them in a safe at the Banque de la Cité in Paris. Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae [see Argos on map] and brother to Menelaus, the King of Sparta [ map].

Agamemnon tries to convince Clytemnestra to go back to Argos, but Clytemnestra insists on staying for the wedding.Reflecting on all this as a spectator at the May 1st Parade—one of the biggest Communist holidays—the narrator compares the father to a successor of that grand master of all sacrificers, “Comrade Agamemnon MacAtreus,” member of the Politburo. After Atreus was murdered by his nephew Aegisthus (son of Thyestes), Agamemnon and Menelaus took refuge with Tyndareus, king of Sparta, whose daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, they respectively married.

But they share the loose but common thread of Ottoman history; and they all depict the bewilderment of those desperately second-guessing despotic regimes. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. After his fall, Bald Man strove with all his might to find the way and the means to clamber back to the upper world. He was the son (or grandson) of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and his wife Aërope and was the brother of Menelaus.This is what has struck me again and again as we have been working through the early chapters of Daniel over the last few months. According to the Spartans, however, they carried the image of Artemis to Laconia, where the goddess was worshipped as Artemis Orthia. Learn about the fate of Agamemnon, according to Homer's Odyssey, Book XI, by listening to his ghost telling Odysseus how he was murdered. He's had a relationship with the daughter of Albania's second in command, but the woman, Suzana, has broken it off, sacrificing her relationship so her father can continue his upward climb through the ranks.