All about My Mother Cilissa, Apollo and the Unity of the Oresteia

• Published in: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 241 - 253
• Main Author: Pypacz, Joanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kraków Jagiellonian University Press 01.01.2022; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagielloskiego; Jagiellonian University-Jagiellonian University Press
• Subjects: Aeschylus (522-456 BC); Comparative analysis; Language and Literature Studies; Literary characters; Literary criticism; Mothers; Sexism; Speeches; Translation Studies; Aeschylus; Apollo; Clytemnestra; Orestes; Oresteia; motherhood; Cilissa

The aim of this article is to reveal the connection between Cilissas speech in the Choephoroi and the infamous speech made by Apollo in the Eumenides. The analysis shows that if these two passages are treated separately, the former would seem to be a comic interlude that has been randomly inserted i...