Tag: Vengeance

The Return of the Kings: Comparing the Homecoming of Odysseus and the Two Comings of Christ

Alex Markos Comment is Closed

After twenty years of suffering and wandering, Odysseus finally returns to his home country of Ithaca. He knows that in his absence, wicked men have taken up residence in his […]

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Vengeance Is Mine, Saith Everyone

Douglas LeBlanc Comment is Closed

Though the theme of ‘vengeance’ is clearly everywhere in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, it is hard to know what exactly is meant by the term. Is vengeance a type of justice or […]

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