how was agamemnon and atreus cursed due to Tantaluses acts?

Answer 1

The House of Atreus begins with Tantalus. Tantalus starts off holding the favor of the gods but pushes his luck when he decides to cook his own son, Pelops, and feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience. This, of course, was a very bad idea and the gods found out. They threw Tantalus in the underworld, where he had to suffer thirst and hunger with water and food just out of his grasp for all of eternity. The gods bring Pelops back to life and cursed the family.

Pelops has two sons, Atreus and Thyestes. Thyestes begins an affair with Atreus' wife, and in retaliation, Atreus kills all of Thyestes' sons and feeds them to him in a pie. Thyestes responds by asking an oracle what to do, who advises him to have a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus. This son is Aegisthus, who does just that, although not before Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, who became the brother-in-law and husband (respectively) of Helen (later of Troy).

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Prior to sailing off to Troy, Agamemnon annoyed the goddess Artemis. As a result, Agamemnon's fleet cannot catch a wind, and thus can't sail. A prophet named Calchas tells him that in order to appease Artemis, Agamemnon must sacrifice one of his daughters, Iphigenia. He does so, and sets sail. While he is fighting the Trojan War, his wife Clytemnestra, infuriated by the murder of her daughter, begins an affair with Aegisthus.

When Agamemnon returned home from the war, he brought home with him a new concubine, the prophetess Cassandra. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus then murder Agamemnon and Cassandra. Agamemnon's son, Orestes, goaded by his sister Electra, must avenge his father's death but in doing so, must kill his mother. Orestes was still quite young when Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra. He was sent into exile and swore revenge. He was torn between avenging his father and not killing his mother. 'It was a son's duty to kill his father's murderers, a duty that came before all others. But a son who killed his mother was abhorrent to gods and to men.' When he asked Apollo for advice, the god advised him to kill his mother. 'And Orestes knew that he must work out the curse of his house, exact vengeance and pay with his own ruin.'

After Orestes murdered Clytemnestra, he wandered the lands with guilt in his heart. After many years, he pleaded to Athena with Apollo by his side. No man of Atreus had ever done something so noble and 'neither he nor any descendant of his would ever again be driven into evil by the irresistible power of the past.' Orestes therefore ends the curse of the House of Atreus.

Answer 2

Agamemnon was murdered by either Clythemnestra or Aegesthus;

Atreus was cursed to have unfaithful daughters.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Pelops, son of Tantalus, came to Pisa with his swift horses and won the hand of Oenomaus' daughter. She became the mother of Atreus, and Atreus had as sons Menelaus and Agamemnon. I am Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia.... By Euripus' banks, where the ceaseless gusts churn its waters and disturb the dark surface of the sea, my father sacrified me, as he thought, for Helen's sake, to honour Artemis in Aulis' famous bay.
The mention of Tantalus is programmatic, for it was he who killed his son and offered him as food for the unwitting gods. He and his "house" (i.e. family of descendants), were punished for this, hence the misery of Iphigenia, and Orestes, her brother. Iphigenia continues her opening by mentioning "sacrifice" no less than seven times in the first sixty lines (I am using English, and suspect that one of the occurrences translates a different Greek word, however). Like Jephthah in the Book of Judges, Agamemnon was a military commander who had unwittingly vowed to sacrifice his daughter in order to gain a favorable battle. Unlike Jephthah, however, Agamemnon, deceived his daughter by leading her in a chariot to what was promised to be her wedding ceremony in which she would marry Achilles. Iphigenia, however, was saved by Artemis herself, who brought her to a barbarian land, Tauria (modern Crimea), where she was charged with preparing and consecrating living human victims for sacrifice there.
Meanwhile, Orestes, the much younger brother of Iphigenia, pursued by the Furies, is told by the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi that if he can carry the image of Artemis from its temple in Tauria, and bring it to Greece, he and his father's house will be free of their curse. The reader already suspects at this stage the conclusion of the play: recognition by brother and sister, with her escape from the barbarian king who holds her captive."I cannot believe it. No, I think it is incredible that Tantalus gave a banquet to the gods in which they feasted with pleasure on his son's flesh. It is the inhabitants of this land, I think, being themselves murderers, who attribute their vileness to the goddess. I cannot suppose any god capable of evil."

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