The Greeks gave us many things left - one thing that strikes me every time is the great irony: how we live by the moment our fate determined without ever seeing. For example. mx24 Agamemnon mx24 and his brother Menelaus bring Greeks together in a war against the poor city of Troy execute and Menelaus's wife "Helen of Troy" again. In those years, soldiers transport galleie rowed with oars for each meter's progress: an extremely difficult and risky story to boat safely maneuver for any long distance, nevermind an army of a thousand ships. Actually there is only one way such a thing could ever work, with the help of a strong and persistent wind behind the sails. The two brothers so choose the port of Aulis as the starting mx24 point, because it (like Cape Town and PE) have a reputation for wind. Besides, Agamemnon offended the goddess of nature (Artemis) and as punishment she brings a total lull over Aulis. It was the Greeks with their thousand ships all-dressed-up-and-nowhere-to-go. Eventually word that Artemis a blood sacrifice of Agamemnon's family before taking his wind will provide, and to a remorse he decided to concede. He let his oldest daughter came - at first glance to her wedding - but the moment when she is "giving away" he pulled a knife and cut her throat, as a sacrifice to Artemis. That moment is the moment Agamemnon's destiny. But what happens now? The wind blow on the Greeks rushed to their boats and the big trip. The twelve-year-long war with Troy is wearing on and ultimately triumphant Agamemnon. Troy is burned, Paris (Helen's suitor) is murdered, Helen came with the Greeks back. The Greek nation is formed, world history began, the poets sing, but it's all irrelevant - the entire Trojan War is irrelevant. Agamemnon long for Iphigenia (his daughter) forget - thousands of innocent people mx24 have indeed died - but Clytemnestra, his wife made him never forgive. Each day of the twelve years she waited on that day of his triumphant return him put his death (30 times) after a "Royal Robe" him dress in fact a straightjacket is. The oldest playwright we know - Aeschylus mx24 - a trilogy of plays written about this. The first play is called "Agamemnon" - that's the story I just told. The second play is called "Choephori". In English they say "The libation Bearers". A "libation" is a drink for the gods mixed and then heave a tomb or a temple strewn. mx24 The African mx24 word for it is "libation", but I die before I use it. I call it "The Wreath Bearers". "Agamemnon" and "The Wreath Bearers" is my favorite two plays. (And Shakespeare's "Henry IV") The Wreath Bearers is set around Agamemnon's tomb and show the motives of the various people who offered sacrifices. Clytemnestra brings its offerings to the spirit o Agamemnon to appease and history buried. Orestes (they exiled son) brings his gifts to his father's power to get revenge on his mother. Around that grave we see the world of revenge and hatred and the sins of the fathers transferred to the children. mx24 The unbreakable cycle: "The living wails to the Dead" as Clytemnestra says that to this day on. Chicken stuff. And then (just for the record) The third play is the "Eumenides" - "The Kindly Ones". I hate it. It feels like a balloon when you prick it for five hours inflated. mx24 It's about the "Twelve Furies" who pursue Orestes behalf Clytemnestra's ghost and ultimately who gets him and his cronies (Athens and Apollo) and then turned into the "Kindly Ones" There you are still an irony in v the story Jason and Medea, but that's another day's issue.
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