Mycenaean Rhapsody

Genre/Style: Queen

Touchstones: Queen, “My Fairy King,” “March of the Black Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Prophet’s Song,” “You Take My Breath Away,” “The Millionaire Waltz”

Themes: Theater and theatricality, tragedy and comedy, tetralogies, gendered power, revenge, justice, Greek political bodies

Myth: The Oresteia

Work: Aeschylus’ Oresteia (458 BCE)