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From Aeschylus' Oresteia to the Museum of Telecommunications!
17 July 2024

From Aeschylus' Oresteia to the Museum of Telecommunications!

What can connect Aeschylus' Oresteia, which was staged on 12 & 13/7 at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos, with the Telecommunications Museum?

In the first part of the play, Clytemnestra announces the fall of Troy by the Achaeans and the return of her husband, Agamemnon, to Mycenae. "Who has arrived so quickly to announce it, in the course of just one night?" the Chorus-folk wonder in disbelief. The queen of Mycenae, responding, gives a particularly vivid description of the route of the 'first night messenger of the fire', or phyktories, the most widespread system of relaying visual signals in antiquity.

The message, starting from Troy and reaching Mycenae, is depicted in a relief painting on the first floor of the Museum, where all the phrictories networks in Greece, from antiquity to Byzantine times, are depicted.

This summer, visit the Museum to tour its renovated premises and discover monasteries and monasteries of the area.

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