Classical Mythology The House of Atreus The House

Classical Mythology The House of Atreus

The House of Dardanus and the House of Atreus.

Ioli Kaliopi Sifakaki, Tantalus Dinner. London, Royal College of Art, Summer Graduate Show, 2009.

Model of Temple of Zeus, Olympia, ~470 -457

East Pediment, detail of Seer. Temple of Zeus, Olympia, ca 470 -457.

Adrastus and Thyestes at Sicyon. South Italian redfigure calyx krater, by the Darius Painter, ca 325. A scene from Sophocles’s (lost) Thyestes at Sicyon. Bottom: King Adrastus (center) orders Thyestes to yield baby Aegisthus for exposure; Queen Amphithea comforts Pelopeia. Top: Apollo confronts a Fury; Artemis orders Pan to save the baby; the hero Sicyon looks on.

Clytemnestra. Sculpture by Chryssa (1933 -2013), ca 1980. Megaron Musikis, Athens. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus killing Agamemnon. Attic red figure kalyx krater by the Dokimasia Painter, mid V. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.

Orestes pursues Clytemnestra. Lucanian redfigure pot attributed to the Amykos Painter, 420 -410. Paris, Louvre Museum. Orestes kills Aegisthus. Athenian redfigure pelike by the Berlin Painter, late VI. Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum. Fiona Shaw as Electra (Sophocles’s) at the Barbican, ca 1988. Photo by Neil Libbert. The Guardian 29 Apr 2014.

Orestes being purified by Apollo as Clytemnestra tries to awake the sleeping Erinyes. South Italian red-figure bell-krater, 380– 370. Paris, Louvre.

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458. Agamemnon. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus killing Agamemnon. Attic red figure kalyx krater by the Dokimasia Painter, mid V. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.

Scenes from Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, dir by Niketi Kontouri. Kozani, 2013.

Electra and Orestes at the Tomb of Agamemnon. Melian relief, 450 s. Paris, Louvre. Possibly a scene from Aeschylus’s Libation Bearers.

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458. The Libation Bearers. Orestes kills Aegisthus. Athenian redfigure pelike by the Berlin Painter, late VI. Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna. Orestes pursues Clytaemnestra. Lucanian redfigure pot attributed to the Amykos Painter, 420 -410. Paris, Louvre Museum.

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 458. The Eumenides. Orestes being purified by Apollo as Clytemnestra tries to awake the sleeping Erinyes. South Italian red-figure bell-krater, 380– 370. Paris, Louvre.

Still of E G Marshall, Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Edward Binns, Jack Klugman, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, and (back to camera) John Fiedler in 12 Angry Men, dir Sidney Lumet, 1957.

Kate Tempest: “I don’t want to be famous or anything like that. ” Photograph: David Levene/Guardian, 23 Oct 2014.