Agamemnon, Free Will, and The Soul
Question: How shall I order my life?
Music: Maurice Andre Edition Concertos 3
While the strong do what they will, the weak will suffer what they must.
Candlelit banquet hall of white shimmering granite hewn a thousand years prior.
Families feast in new-found consummatory peace.
Eyes of Paris and the most striking woman wandering.
Glancing.
Finding.
Keeping.
Their appetite seeking richer feast, setting the universe aflame.
She, the prize of Spartan King Menelaus.
He, the youngest found son of King Priam.
Filling with rapturous desire.
Birthing unthinkably epic tragedy.
Stoling in the Trojan ship, she slips
Away
Kingly prize seized by prince’s lips
Menalaus’ most powerful brother,
King of Mycenae,
Lord of all the Bronze Age Greeks.
Men, ever searching for war, now find action most disrespecting.
The Greeks mobilize the greatest army ever seen at their port on the Aegean Sea,
Selling their thousand-plus navy fleet to embark. Westward sailing sights set.
Blue sky with golden sun contrasting the unnaturally darkened sea.
Wind-whipped waves cresting supernatural over the toy ships.
Howling across the seascaped hillside.
Artemisian altar aflame for favor.
Agamemnonian warriors prevented from boarding.
Gusts, tides prevalent, and ominous storming.
Agamemnon,
King of Greeks,
King of Kings.
Artemis, Diana in the Roman manifestation, is still angry for his boasting as a superior hunter to the goddess. Yet, how to amend? Seer, Calchas, works to appease the war goddess with the blood of peaceful doves, yet is a feast that cannot fully please. She is desiring a proper, noble blood than pieced beasts.
Utmost conquest requires utmost blood.
He, son of cursed father Altreus,
Born by Creten mother,
Having three kingly daughters, one most beloved.
Rash Vows
The Grecian father, less so his daughter, choosing, makes a hurried vow to lure his wife and Iphigenia to Aulis. Using mediators, Odysseus and Diomedes, to tell & restrain his wife, Clytemnestra, to send his daughter so that she might wed the great half-god, Achilles. Achilles supposedly wished for them to be married before they left to fight against Troy.
Royal lie.