Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Tapestry Argument
(Agamemnon)
- Clytemnestra
- "Priam, can you see him
if he had your success?"
- Using his nemesis to coax
him. Also playing on
arrogance and pride.
- "And you fear the common men."
- Saying he's not brave, but fearful
- Could this show that everyone
knew stepping on the tapestry was
bad?
- "Where's the glory without a
little gall?"
- Daring him
- She treats him like a god, not a
mortal. Playing on his
hubris/arrogance?
- "Let the red stream flow and bear him to
the home he never hoped to see"
- Agamemnon
- Refuses to step on the tapestry because it
would anger the gods
- Hit by Zeus' thunderbolt?
- If the gods commanded it,
would he have done it?
- Last, desperate attempt
- Agamemnon is surprised
by how Clytemnestra
feels about the war
- This make him less reluctant to enter
- If he strides on the tapestry, he'll see
Priam because he's dead
- He's angry at Clytemnestra
because she treats him like a
woman
- If he steps on it, he'll be lost
- People have an enormous
power and he cares about
what the people think
- Tapestry
- blood, murex
- expensive, hubristic and dominance