CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Iolaus, Iphicles, Euripides
15 Mar 2018
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I(cid:374) eu(cid:396)ipides" tragedy medea killed the children which had never been done before: after that most representations focused mostly on how medea was wronged, not many portrayed jason heroically. In the name heracles is hera, wife of zeus. Lycus enters house to kill children, a servant gives a big speech explaining everything: Hera sends two people to drive heracles mad. One of them is madness, makes heracles mad after he kills lycus. He(cid:396)a(cid:272)les does a lot of stupid thi(cid:374)gs, fl(cid:455)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374) a (cid:271)(cid:396)oo(cid:373) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g it"s a (cid:272)ha(cid:396)iot. He gets convinces he has to kill the children of euristheus (because he gave him the labours), he thinks his own children are those, kills them, kills megara too. Heracles falls asleep, realizes what he did, hides under a blanket for most of the rest of the play. Theseus comes near the end of the play, amphitryon convinces theseus to approach.
