Philoctetes, definitely! Pirithoos must have slipped in due to me having been to Sanssouci and the temple of friendship recently.
Sympathetic Agamemnon: I can think of one modern exception where he is indeed not vile but sympathetic, a Yuletide story, no less, by Inhammer. It was called „Young Agamemnon gets the job done“ and actually pulled off an YA style adventure (tongue-in-cheek) with young Agamemnon, exile (along with brother Menelaos) in Sparta while Thyestes and Aigisthos are ruling Mycenae after having finished Atreus together. Kid Helen gets abducted by Theseus, kid Clytaemnestra, Agamemnon and Menelaos set off to rescue her. And it actually works. I‘m still amazed and impressed as hell at Inhammer pulling this off, and stylishly, too.
Thersites: you‘re right, the homophobic joke is in Shakespeare, not Homer; googling tells me Thersites in Homer has a go at Agamemnon‘s selfishness and gloryhounding and wants to inspire a mutiny.
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Date: 2020-08-22 05:16 pm (UTC)Sympathetic Agamemnon: I can think of one modern exception where he is indeed not vile but sympathetic, a Yuletide story, no less, by Inhammer. It was called „Young Agamemnon gets the job done“ and actually pulled off an YA style adventure (tongue-in-cheek) with young Agamemnon, exile (along with brother Menelaos) in Sparta while Thyestes and Aigisthos are ruling Mycenae after having finished Atreus together. Kid Helen gets abducted by Theseus, kid Clytaemnestra, Agamemnon and Menelaos set off to rescue her. And it actually works. I‘m still amazed and impressed as hell at Inhammer pulling this off, and stylishly, too.
Thersites: you‘re right, the homophobic joke is in Shakespeare, not Homer; googling tells me Thersites in Homer has a go at Agamemnon‘s selfishness and gloryhounding and wants to inspire a mutiny.