Kilissa

Family: House of Atreus · Role: nurse of Orestes · First appears: Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 6

Life events

Clytemnestra orders Kilissa to summon Aegisthus to hear the travelers’ report.(Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 6)
- With: Clytemnestra Aegisthus
- “Our mistress bids me with all speed to call Ægisthos to the strangers, that he come And hear more clearly, as a man from man, This newly-brought report.”
Kilissa is instructed to summon Aegisthus alone, without armed guards, for secret communication.(Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 6)
- With: Aegisthus
- “But bid him 'come alone,' (that so he hear Without alarm,) 'full speed, with joyous mind,' Since 'secret speech with messengers goes best.'”

ward: Orestes (Kilissa explicitly describes Orestes as her charge and says she received and nursed him.) “But as for dear Orestes, my sweet charge, Whom from his mother I received and nursed.... And then the shrill cries rousing me o' nights. And many and unprofitable toils For me who bore them. For one needs must rear The heedless infant like an animal, (How can it else be?) as his humour serves.”
employer: Clytemnestra “Our mistress bids me with all speed to call Ægisthos to the strangers, that he come And hear more clearly, as a man from man, This newly-brought report.”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.