Talk:Oresteia

message: Basically it means 'entering the house..household..etc.'  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.178.36.133 (talk) 00:21, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of oikos is just a bit of wiki showoffery; it has no greater meaning than the English 'house'.   I'd rather see some pedantry used on the line:  "Eventually, for reasons that are still heavily debated, Clytemnestra does persuade Agamemnon to cross the purple tapestry to enter..."   Any cite for this continuing heavy debate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.109.133.97 (talk) 03:07, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

text: That sounds like a very good idea, at least at this stage where the  articles are quite small as you said. - Hephaestos 02:54, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks...I was going to get around to doing that, I just didn't have time :) Adam Bishop 20:39, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

text: Well, if you've just read it in the play itself, you are welcome to change it! (I don't remember who dies when and I don't have my copy with me.) Adam Bishop 04:29, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Would it be appropriate to mention, in the section "The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture," that Mozart's opera Idomeneo features Electra as a major character? Really strange character, BTW. --Sylvia A 22:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idomeneo 

message: I have removed the Harry Potter reference.  It's solely an epigraph to one of the novels. --Tony Sidaway 00:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. I missed the forest for the trees there. What about the other references in this article? Are some of them borderline as well? Do you feel like pruning them if they feel excessively frivolous or tangential? Carcharoth 03:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. I see the article has a history. I should have checked before changing motto to epigraph. Carcharoth 03:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Harry Potter

message: To my knowledge, it's Orestes wird von den Furien verfolgt "Orestes pursued by the Furies." Ifnkovhg (talk) 08:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bouguereau painting title? 

message: What is the correct alternate name for The Libation Bearers? I've seen translations using Choephoroe, Choephorae, and Choephori. Thanks in anticipation. - Mtmelendez (Talk) 13:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The first one is (in my experience) most common; sometimes you'll find the ending -oi. The second one is new to me, but the feminine ending is appropriate seeing as how the chorus is made up of female slaves. Ifnkovhg (talk) 01:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Libation Bearers

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Unconvinced There is a distinction of idiom. We say "Aeschylus wrote the Oresteia"; but we do not say "Milton wrote the "Paradise Lost". Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The presence or absence of the definite article is determined by whether the proper noun is strong or weak (see ), and I would argue that the names of most ancient literary works are weak proper nouns, based on the usage I've seen in secondary sources. --Akhilleus (talk) 01:52, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The painting shows Clytemnestra hesitating and planning to kill the man in bed.  Neither happen in the play.  Is there a better illustration of the play? (John User:Jwy talk) 16:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The painting "Murder of Agamemnon" 

message: This article does not include, in the introduction, any indication of the importance of this work. This is more of a scholarly analysis of the play, rather than a encyclopedic survey.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:46, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Influence and importance

message: I think this article really needs a discussion of the manuscript transmission of these plays.  I think they're all Byzantine and I remember reading that the "Libation Bearers" came down to us in only one manuscript (maybe belonging to the Medici?) but this is really not my field.  It would be great if someone more knowledgeable could contribute.
Iphthime (talk) 20:41, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Manuscript discussion?

message: Euben, J. Peter (1982). "Justice and the Oresteia". The American Political Science Review. 76: 22–33 JEbberhart0 (talk) 01:13, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: 82.177.40.11 (talk) 11:54, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: One or two lines of ''Proteus'' are left?

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