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	SparkNotes: The Flies: Analysis of Major Characters
		To impose this order, Aegistheus comes up with a clever way of blinding his subjects to the fact that they are free: he tells them that they are guilty of Agamemnon's death along with him and that they must atone for their sins.
		Aegistheus killed Agamemnon because he wanted power, not because he felt it was the right thing to do.
		The point here is to underscore the source of Aegistheus's guilt: Aegistheus is evil not because he killed Agamemnon, but because he knows that human beings are free and he builds up institutions to keep this knowledge from them.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theflies/canalysis.html (1482 words)

	Sartre's The Flies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		AEgistheus contributes to the fear, calling out some of the citizens and their ghosts by name.
		AEgistheus tells him to "beware of the flies." When Orestes says it is time to kill Clytemnestra, Electra has a change of heart.
		The rest centers around AEgistheus' conversation with Zeus, in which Zeus reveals himself to have a vested interest in the proliferation of repentance in Argos.
	www.loyno.edu /~dpobrien/flies.html (2079 words)

	SparkNotes: The Flies: Act II, Scene Two
		When Aegistheus does not recognize him, Jupiter calls down lightning to show who he is. He tells Aegistheus to summon his guards immediately and send them to arrest Electra and Orestes, but the king refuses, saying he is so tired that he would rather die.
		Aegistheus complains that he does not know who he is. He can only see himself reflected in the darkened souls of his subjects; he has no self aside from their fear of him.
		Aegistheus asks how Orestes can be certain that his action is right if he himself had just heard the divine arbiter of right and wrong condemn this murder.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theflies/section5.rhtml (2315 words)

	Sartre, The Flies
		Aegistheus murders the true king of Argos and takes his place, while the queen, Clytemnestra, gladly joins him and supports his every repressive action.
		Aegistheus clearly stands for the German occupation, while Clytemnestra represents the collaborationist Vichy government.
		Aegistheus acknowledges about the politics of power from the people: "For fifteen years I've been playing a part to mask their power from them" (100).
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/20th/sartre.flies.html (1217 words)

	Elektra - Richard Strauss
		Clytemnestra, with the aid of her paramour Aegistheus, has procured the murder of her husband Agamemnon, and is now in fear of the discovery of her guilt by her children, Elektra, Chrysothemis, and their banished brother Orestes.
		Elektra, who is the embodiment of vehement lust for vengeance, endeavours to persuade her meeker and shrinking sister to kill the guilty pair.
		He kills Clytemnestra and Aegistheus, and Elektra, in a delirious joy-dance, falls dead before her horror-stricken attendants.
	www.music-with-ease.com /strauss-elektra.html (468 words)

	SparkNotes: The Flies: Character List
		Electra spends her days in hatred of Clytemnestra and Aegistheus, who constantly punish her for refusing to repent for their crimes like the rest of the Argives.
		Aegistheus has attempted to make his subjects feel that his eyes are on them all the time, judging them even in their private moments.
		Though the soldiers speak very seriously of the dead, their comments are calculated to bring out the absurdity of the repressive system in which people are afraid of invisible spirits judging and punishing them.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theflies/characters.html (1155 words)

	Classical Mythology on Demodocus.com The Mycenaean Saga
		Pelopia gave birth to Aegistheus, who was treated well, and became a companion of Atreus's sons by Aerope, Agamemnon and Menelaus.
		Aegistheus still carried his father's sword, which his mother had given him.
		The children of Clytemnestra and Aegistheus were Aletes and Erigone.
	www.demodocus.com /myth/sagas/mycenae.html (1916 words)

	Two Acts of Troy: The Tales of Aquarius, Aquila and Gemini. Chapter 8: Guilt and Forgiveness
		In her memory the faces of the messengers registered and she realized that the young man in the shadows was Orestes.
		She went to the room where Agamemnon had kept his weapons and she grabbed an axe, but then changed her mind and put it back before going to the garden where she knew Orestes would come to look for her.
		Aegistheus, too, lost everything to your father, for my father gave Agamemnon troops to take Mycenae, thinking that Helen would then marry him.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/troy8.htm (1925 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Aegistheus and Clytemnestra both had done this dirty deed of killing the King Agamemnon, just as the Nazis came and overtook the country of France.
		These characters in the play were much like the Nazis also in that they made their subjects feel as though it was their fault that their beloved King was dead, just as the Nazis made the people feel it was their fault for the invasion.
		Clytemnestra and Aegistheus also had the power of royalty and army to back them up as did the Nazis with there equipment and manpower.
	www.svsu.edu /~lmstroze/essaysamples.htm (4703 words)

	The Flies Brings Sartre's Play To Kirby Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sartre begins the play with Orestes, who returns with his tutor to his Argos birthplace after having recently discovered that his parents are Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.
		Since the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra's lover Aegistheus, a pall has settled over Argos as the people attempt to atone for the sins committed in the city.
		He clearly shows the transition from an earnest and tractable young man, who simply wants to meet the family he never knew existed, to a determined free thinker.
	www.amherst.edu /~astudent/1998-1999/issue012/arts/flies.html (565 words)

	The Flies - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Flies (known in the original French as Les Mouches) is Jean-Paul Sartre's version of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles and Euripedes.
		It recounts the story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegistheus, who had deposed and killed him.
		Sartre incorporates an existentialist theme into the play, having Electra and Orestes engaged in a battle with Zeus and his furies, who are the gods of Argos and the centerpiece for self-abnegating religious rituals.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/The_Flies (388 words)

	Free Essays - The Flies
		Aegistheus- He overthrows Agamemnon, makes Clytemnestra his wife and takes rule of Argos.
		When she was young Clytemnestra and her stepfather Aegistheus murdered her father.
		One of Orestes main conflict or problem was actually killing Aegistheus and his mother.
	www.freeessays.tv /d5381.htm (515 words)

	Two Acts of Troy: The Tales of Aquarius, Aquila and Gemini. Chapter 7: Agamemnon's Return
		Her husband's cousin, the cousin Agamemnon deposed when he killed his uncle Thyestes and took the kingdom of Mycenae, now joined her in the royal chamber.
		She and Aegistheus had a plan that even the gods could not interfere with.
		But when Aegistheus told this to Clymnestra, her response was, "And the cousin, the uncle, and the mother, the daughter." Clytemnestra had planned her vengeance for the murder of Iphigenia and Aegistheus planned his retribution against his uncle Atreus through the son.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/troy7.htm (804 words)

	Elektra (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The unrelenting gloom and horror that permeate the original play produce, in the hands of Hofmannsthal and Strauss, a drama whose sole theme is revenge.
		Elektra, who is the personification of the passionate lust for vengeance, tries to persuade her timid sister to kill Clytemnestra and Aegistheus.
		He kills Clytemnestra and Aegistheus; Elektra, in an ecstatic dance of triumph, falls dead in front of her horror-stricken attendants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elektra_(opera) (326 words)

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		This is confirmed explicitly by Zeus’ comments on Aegistheus’ deeds, committed despite explicit divine warning, and the punishment he received (Od.1.26-42: HO3 #12).
		If the cause and effect relation between crime and punishment is thus located entirely on the human level, humans also have the chance to control their destiny: they can avoid transgression and divine punishment.
		This is comparable to the Freudian concept of “overdetermination,” as is indicated, e.g., when Diomedes says in 9.727-28: Achilles “will fight later, all right, when he is ready or a god tells him to.” For all these reasons, divine presence and intervention do not reduce human responsibility; the humans are not helpless victims.
	www.brown.edu /Courses/CL0070/Hesiod-Justice.doc (2710 words)

	Aisle Say (Ontario): ELECTRA / THE FLIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The leading roles of Orestes, Electra, Clytemnestra and Aegistheus are reprised by the same actors who played them in Electra.
		In the end, Electra, who earlier advocated the murder of Aegistheus and Clytemnestra as the only way to liberate Argos, finds herself ultimately under the yoke of penitent remorse and unable to support her brother.
		Aegistheus and Clytemnestra are less a force in Sartre's version but the role of the gods is amplified here by fine work from Steve Cumyn as Jupiter.
	www.aislesay.com /ONT-ELEC-FLIES.html (869 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		When he returns victorious, his wife Klytämnestra and her lover Aegistheus murder him and claim the throne.
		Unable to sacrifice her children, Klytämnestra pays to have her son Orestes murdered far away and banishes her headstrong daughter Elektra, but allows her weaker daughter Chrysothemis to wander the court in limbo.
		Unbowed, Elektra survives on fantasies of revenge, plotting ways to kill her mother and Aegistheus.
	starbulletin.com /1999/02/15/features/story3.html (701 words)

	NPR's At the Opera
		Agamemnon goes home, where he kisses his wife, hugs his kids -- Elektra, Orestes and Chrysothemis -- and then decides to try out the hot tub his wife had installed while he was gone.
		While he’s relaxing, Clytemnestra and Aegistheus sneak up on him with a pick-axe.
		Clytemnestra tells everyone that she killed her husband to avenge their daughter, Iphigenia.
	www.npr.org /programs/attheopera/archives/001014.ato.html (604 words)

	Aeschylus, Agamemnon
		At about the age of 67, in 458 B.C. Aeschylus produced the tetralogy: Agamemnon, Coephoroi, Eumenides (and the satyr-play Proteus) on the subject of the descendants of Tantalus and Pelops: Agamemnon, Clytaemestra, Aegistheus, Orestes and Electra.
		The tetralogy won the first prize, as a surviving inscription (`Didaskaliai') indicates.
		Aegistheus himself is the `Weaver of Justice' (cf.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/a-agamem.html (471 words)

	Classical Archaeology: Lecture 15
		Menelaos sought the support of Agamemnon and the other kings and they attacked--and eventually took--Troy.
		Conspiracy of Clytemnestra and Aegistheus, the murder, and revenge of Orestes and Electra.
		Their son Orestes later killed Clytemnestra and her lover Aegistheus.
	isthmia.osu.edu /teg/hist306d/lec15.htm (809 words)

	From Versailles To Cybernetics \| Gregory Bateson
		First there was Thyestes' adultery, then Atreus' killing of Thyestes' three children, whom he served to Thyestes at a peace-making feast.
		Then the murder of Atreus' son, Agamemnon, by Thyestes' son, Aegistheus; and finally the murder of Aegistheus and Clytemnestra by Orestes.
		The tragedy of oscillating and self-propagating distrust, hate, and destruction down the generations.
	www.ralphmag.org /batesonP.html (1727 words)

	CLAS1020:
		Orestes kills Aegistheus, metope from Foce del Sele, ca.
		570 BC A servant, Clytemnestra, Electra, Orestes, Aegistheus: Berlin painter, ca.
		Orestes kills Aegistheus by the Dokimasia painter, ca.
	www.classics.uga.edu /courses/clas1020/images/nostoi.htm (241 words)

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		Orestes does not kill Aegistheus and his mother, Clytemnestra, for any of the motives originally presented by Aeschylus: not to avenge his father, or to claim his throne, or even to liberate the Argives from
		Although he proclaims his mission as liberator at several places, the claim remains hollow and rhetorical.
		He will own his crime: unlike the people of Argos, unlike Aegistheus and Clytemnestra themselves, Orestes will claim it without guilt.
	www.is.wayne.edu /raronson/Books/JPS/Part3/Chap2/Chap2.htm (11784 words)

	The Flies essays
		Tutor- He is Orestes’ advisor who is basically responsib
		When she is reunited with her long lost brother Orestes, she persuades him to avenge the murder of their father.
		All papers are for research and references purposes only!
	www.megaessays.com /viewpaper/53928.html (333 words)

	WFIU:
		Orestes finds an entire village enslaved by the repentance they feel for having passively allowed Queen Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegistheus to murder King Agamemnon.
		It's a repentance that is poisonously nourished by a yearly festival of the dead cleverly staged by Aegistheus, potently played by Franc Buczolich, and the Queen, acted with regal yet empty elegance by Danielle Bruce.
		Orestes, in disguise as a wandering student, meets his sister, the deeply bitter Electra, played by Nicole Bruce.
	www.indiana.edu /~wfiu/walker-janjune2004.htm (9032 words)

	Dipteracon
		It's been 15 years since Orestes, now 18 years old, escaped death in Argos.
		His father, Agamemnon, was not so lucky, having been murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra (Orestes' mother), and her lover, Aegistheus, who is now king.
		Orestes' sister, Electra, has dreamed of revenge all these years, and has awaited the return of her brother in the hope that he will exact vengeance.
	www.lamama.org /archives/2003/DIPTERACON.htm (563 words)

	ARLT :: Summer School 2005: Jenny March on unseen drama
		Sophocles' Electra: Electra is outside the palace keeping guard against the arrival of Aegisthus, while Orestes is killing Clytemnestra.
		Clytemnestra cries "Where is Aegistheus?" The audience looks at the eisodoi.
		But then Orestes enters with dripping sword and tells the story.
	blog.arlt.co.uk /blog/_archives/2005/7/24/1071782.html (1750 words)

	Alessandro Sanquirico Posters Prints - The Audience Hall in the Palace of Aegistheus, Design for the Ballet Orestes Art ...
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		Alessandro Sanquirico Posters Prints - The Audience Hall in the Palace of Aegistheus, Design for the Ballet "Orestes" Art Giclee Print - Artist: Alessandro Sanquirico - Poster Size: 24x18
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