1. Report by:
Antonio Delgado
BSEd II

2.  (architecture)
dwelling place, constructed
as a home for one or
more persons.
 (history)
a royal family
Queen Elizabeth II

4.  The royal family of Mycenea

5.  son of Zeus
 Feeds the gods his
own son, Pelops
 Gods get mad
 Send him to
underworld
 Cannot reach food
or water

6.  son of Tantalus
 Returned to
form by the
gods
 Tries to woo
Hippodamia
 Has to race
her father by chariot
 Wins and marries Hippodamia
 Hyppodamia’s father kills charioteer (Myrtilus)
for taking bribe

7.  Ruled Thebes with
Amphion (a son of
Zeus)
 Had 14 children, 7
boys and 7 girls
 Tried to get the
people of Thebes to
worship her over Leto
 Niobe’s children are
killed by the gods and
she is turned to stone

8.  exiled by their
father for
murdering their
half-brother
Chrysippus
 took refuge in
Mycenae
 Atreus ascended to
the throne in the
absence of King
Eurystheus

9.  Thyestes falls in love with brother’s
wife (Aerope)
• Makes her false to her vows
• Thyestes has 2 children
 Atreus finds out
• Has his brother’s 2 children killed
• Boils them and feeds them to
Thyestes
 The gods punish Atreus and curse his
family

10.  Menelaus and Agamemnon
 Kingof Sparta
 Husband of Helen

11.  One of the sons of
Atreus
 Commander of the
Greek forces at Troy
 His wife is
Clytemnestra
 Children were:
Iphigenia, Orestes, and
Electra

12.  Before the war,
Agamemnon
sacrifices Iphigenia
in order to get good
winds to sail to
Troy (not willingly;
believed to be a
part of the curse
over the House of
Atreus)

13.  Clytemnestra
becomes outraged
and takes a lover
named Aegisthus
 Aegisthus is the son
of Thestyes

14.  When Agamemnon comes back, he brings a
prophetess named Cassandra with him
 The prophetess makes a prediction that 2
family members will die, including herself

16.  Clytemnestra then
comes out admitting
that she killed
Agamemnon

17.  Aeigisthus refused to kill Electra
 Orestes was away
 Electra patiently waited for Orestes’ return

18.  Orestes faces a
conflict: avenging his
father’s death was his
duty, but killing his
mother was abhorrent
to the gods
 He kills his mother
after asking for
Apollo’s help
 He is assisted by
Pylades

19. Clytemnestra & Aegisthus
kill Agamemnon
Agamemnon Clytemnestra
Aegisthus
Orestes
Orestes kills
Clytemnestra & Aegisthus
Furies hound Orestes

20.  Walksaround
with Furies
hovering over
him for years
(payment for
sin)

21.  Pleas before Athena
 Since no one in the
House of Atreus had
ever paid for their
sins, Athena spares
Orestes and lifts
curse on House of
Atreus

22.  The Furies
were
transformed
into the
Eumenides

23.  Slightlydifferent version of previous story
 Right before Iphigenia is sacrificed, Artemis
rescues her
• Artemis takes her to a temple in the
land of the Taurians and makes her
a priestess of her own temple
• The Taurians were a fierce people
who sacrificed to Artemis any Greed
found in their country

24. “Would a god command such things?”
“It is the men of this land who are
bloodthirsty and they lay
their own guilt on the
gods.”

25.  At the temple of
Artemis, she conducts
the temple sacrifices
with great displeasure
 While she does her
duties, the Taurians
find and capture two
Greeks; Orestes and
Pylades

26.  They are searching
for the image of
Artemis, so that
Orestes can lift the
curse on his family
 They are taken to
Iphigenia, to be
sacrificed for Artemis

27.  She asks them
where they are
from
 She is willing to free
Pylades, if he sends
word to her long
lost brother,
Orestes, that she is
alive and needs him
to rescue her

28.  Orestes reveals himself to his older sister
 They quickly escape with the image of
Artemis
 King Thoas tries to stop them from escaping,
but Athena tells him to stop because they are
fated to escape

29. Prepared by:
“Live to express, not to impress.”