Aeschylus, Agamemnon 709–716

Metatheatre in Aeschylus’ Oresteia

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

Legal Action: The Trial As Theater in Aeschylus' Oresteia

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C...

The Omen of the Eagles and the Ho02 of Agamemnon

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Mobile Vision and Cultural Heritage: the AGAMEMNON Project

The great success that mobile devices like PDAs and cellular phones have been experiencing since the last few years pushes for the development of new tools in the field of Cultural Heritage that exploits such technologies. AGAMEMNON, a project co-funded under the IST 6th Framework Program of the European Commission, is an example of such application. It exploits mobile phones equipped with embe...