CLAS 1100Y Lecture 7: Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Semester 2 - Lecture 7)

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Miasma: contagious pollution brought upon by past actions: tantalus fed his son pelops to the gods. As a result he was punished in hades and cursed for it: a neighbouring king lusted after his daughter (hippodamia) and had gruelling, fatal tests set for any suitor who tried to win her hand. Pelops (of atreus, put back together by gods) won hippodamia"s hand, but killed the guy who helped him do this. House of atreus is now doubly cursed: the sons of hippodamia and pelops, atreus and thyestes, were exiled from. Atreus" wife aerobe was sleeping with thyestes. As revenge atreus feeds thyestes a stew containing his own sons. Furies came from blood drops after the castration of ouranos in the theogony. Concerned with proper order with in the family: avenging kindred blood. Strangely (improperly) masculine: disruptive to greek ideas of femininity, her ruling, making decisions about the polis, was found distasteful.

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