Chorus

Chorus is a compulsory collective participant in the ancient Greek play. The ancient Greek drama was based on the alternation of choir and speech parties. In the tragedies of Aeschylus, the chorus consisted of 12 people, in Sophocles about 15 people, in comedies up to 24 people. Choirgh took over the chorus and paid for the choir (the choir leader was a rich citizen of Athens). His immediate preparation for the performance was carried out by "Khrodidaskal" (literally - the teacher of the chorus).

The chorus plays a very important role in the ”Agamemnon.” There are choruses of moral-philosophical or religious-philosophical content. However, at the end of Agamemnon, the choir unveils swords to enter into a struggle with Egisf. The choir of the Argossky elders remembers the tragic past in the house of Agamemnon and chanting the wise and just Zeus, but at the beginning of the tragedy in the intonation of the chorus, guesses are the premonition of something terrible and inevitable.

With this premonition, the chorus will share with us more than once throughout the tragedy. Generic curse, blood revenge, restoration of justice - the main driving forces of the tragedy, even more, expressive this thought is emphasized in the song of the chorus, already executed after it became known about the fall of Troy. The chorus sings in the first stasis (having learned from Clytemnestra about the capture of Troy). And then from a concrete fact (the punishment of Alexander, since his act is a crime against Justice), the chorus goes to general reflections: after the blow of Zeus, one can trace, he did as he planned. Returning to the beginning of the Trojan hike, the chorus pronounced three fatal words for the king: "for the sake of multitude wives."