Amidst the silent black ships on the shore At Aulis came the princess to be wed. And with bright eyes and cheeks a blushing red heard she the bloody dowry father swore. To feed the winds that bring the ships to war With Huntress' altar for her marriage bed, her bridegroom not a hero, noble bred, but athame's blade, athirst for royal gore! What courage, then, you gracefully displayed, As into father's teary eyes you stared! And while his shame he, trembling, tried to hide, No tremors your adornments disarrayed. Knew you then, as your pale neck you bared, The goddess would a substitute provide?
The deep, uneasy compulsion in the pattern of Atreus committing crimes against their own children becomes more and more horrifying and spectacular the more I learn about this story. I've just recently dived into the Oresteia. Agamemnon having his daughter killed to please his friends and start a war seems to me like a really compelling way to psychoanalyze the dark aspects of a father-daughter relationship
The deep, uneasy compulsion in the pattern of Atreus committing crimes against their own children becomes more and more horrifying and spectacular the more I learn about this story. I've just recently dived into the Oresteia. Agamemnon having his daughter killed to please his friends and start a war seems to me like a really compelling way to psychoanalyze the dark aspects of a father-daughter relationship
This is an excellent poem worthy of its subject.