Klytaimnestra’s Weapon and the Shroud for the Dead

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  • Beate Wagner-Hasel

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArchimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne
Subtitle of host publication(Dossier thématique 1. Agents rituels et performances corporelles dans l’Antiquité grecque, étrusque et romaine)
Pages134-145
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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NameArchimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne

Abstract

The paper discusses the symbolic meaning of the purple cloth which, in Aeschylus' tragedy Agamemnon, Klytaimestra orders to be spread on the ground in welcome of Agamemnon. In my opinion, the funeral rites function as the backdrop for the welcoming scene. The production of the cloths, which accompany the dead into immortality and which announce the kleos of the dead, was an important task of the women of the household. I suggest reading the purple petasmata, or the poros porphypreos as the fabrics are also called, as shrouds for the dead which transform the unfaithful husband into a living corpse.

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Klytaimnestra’s Weapon and the Shroud for the Dead. / Wagner-Hasel, Beate.
Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne: (Dossier thématique 1. Agents rituels et performances corporelles dans l’Antiquité grecque, étrusque et romaine) . 2022. p. 134-145 (Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne).

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Wagner-Hasel, B 2022, Klytaimnestra’s Weapon and the Shroud for the Dead. in Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne: (Dossier thématique 1. Agents rituels et performances corporelles dans l’Antiquité grecque, étrusque et romaine) . Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne, pp. 134-145. https://doi.org/10.47245/archimede.0009.ds1.10
Wagner-Hasel, B. (2022). Klytaimnestra’s Weapon and the Shroud for the Dead. In Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne: (Dossier thématique 1. Agents rituels et performances corporelles dans l’Antiquité grecque, étrusque et romaine) (pp. 134-145). (Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne). https://doi.org/10.47245/archimede.0009.ds1.10
Wagner-Hasel B. Klytaimnestra’s Weapon and the Shroud for the Dead. In Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne: (Dossier thématique 1. Agents rituels et performances corporelles dans l’Antiquité grecque, étrusque et romaine) . 2022. p. 134-145. (Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne). doi: 10.47245/archimede.0009.ds1.10
Wagner-Hasel, Beate. / Klytaimnestra’s Weapon and the Shroud for the Dead. Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne: (Dossier thématique 1. Agents rituels et performances corporelles dans l’Antiquité grecque, étrusque et romaine) . 2022. pp. 134-145 (Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne).
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