HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Homicide, Matricide, Lenaia
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O mother who bore me--o night my mother--as retribution for the blind and the seeing, listen! Leto"s child does dishonour to my rights, taking from me this cowering wretch, a victim sanctified by right to expiate his own mother"s blood. This day"s work will at once accustom all men to license; and much veritable suffering, which their own children will inflict, lies waiting for parents in time hereafter. Translation: if a justice negates itself happens then it is catastrophe (orestes is acquitted) They say the basic mechanism of justice is fear. P. 99: there is a place where terror is good, and a watch on minds by fear seated above. It is well to learn wisdom through grief (idea of learning through suffering). Would any that nurses no terror in his heart"s clear light--both man and city the same--revere justice still? : episode 3a: ath establishes homicide court.
