CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aegisthus, Atreus, Thyestes

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1B03
• Professor: Kathryn Mattison

Document Summary

Hippodamion"s father: bribes king"s slaves to replace the pins, slave will get the first night with hippodamia, beats king, throws slave over cliff, slave curses him and all of his descendants. Fathers many children with hippodamia: atreus, wife: aerope, is having an affair with thyestes. Finds out and kills all but one of his children. Feeds them to his brother: revealed what the meal consisted of after he had eaten it, another son is aegisthus, themes, retribution & justice, gender & gender rules.