Esquilo -

By leaving Agamenon for Troy he had promised Clitemnestra that I would announce by fire the take of the city the same day it happened. Since then, Clitemnestra had a servant who was to be in the observation for the signs. The atalaya sees the bonfire, and runs to announce it to Your lady. Which, with that new one, comes to the elders who make up the chorus of this tragedy and communicates the happy event.

Although it can be read independently, the coephoras is the second work of the Orestea, the only trilogy of Esquilo that we know in its entirety, and that opens with Agamenon and culminates in the eumenides. In the Greek author's coephoras, he represents the story of a vengeance: the one that, despite his doubts, must carry out Orestes with the support of his sister Electra following the murder of his father Agamenon at the hands of Clitemnestra and his lover Eghisto. In this tragedy, blood calls the blood and the terrible crime that means the magncide of Agamenon can only be punished with divine acquiescence, despite the suffering that the consummation of revenge can and must carry for Orestes. The conflict in the coephoras with the dichotomy between the divine imperatives and the human will reaches a level of an honor to which only the few and rare poets like Esquilo have access.

It's the last work of the Esquilo Orestiada. The Erinias, unnamed, therefore the Euménides euphemism (benevolent) is used, are the goddesses of revenge that persecute Orestes for the death of his mother Clitemnestra. The scene takes place in the shrine of Delphos, the main temple of Apollo, where the navel of the world is located. Then he passes to Athens.

The pleas are based on the mythical theme of the aversion of the fifty daughters of Danae to marry the fifty sons of Egypt. Esquilo makes of the fifty maidens women who, attached to their virginity, hate men and oppose marriage and the perpetuation of life, thus lacking the law imposed on them by nature. This attitude underlies the deep sense of tragedy, on which the lyrical values are imposed above the dramatic ones.

When he is expelled from Tebas, Edipo curses his two children, sentencing to death by power. To avoid it, Eteocles and Polyices agree to alternate on the throne each year. However, at the time, Eteocles refuses to abdicate. Polyices finds a powerful ally in King Adrato, who wants to expand his political inference through the marriage of his daughters.

Overview

"Prometheus: I made the blind hope inhabit in mortals." b "Esquilo (525-456 BC) According to Greek mythology, it is Prometheus who gives humans the main motivation to live.