CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homeric Hymns, Sophrosyne, Euripides
16 Sep 2016
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> phaedra: virtuous character being overwhelmed; plagued by aphrodite doing her best to fight against it for she knows it is wrong eventually reveals the situation: the nurse convinces her when she lays her hand on phaedra"s shoulder. The nurse confronts hippolytus and tells her about phaedra"s passion. => commits suicide then blames hippolytus (writes a letter stating hippolytus raped her) => audience"s sympathy shifts over from phaedra to hippolytus. > nurse: simply wants things to run smoothly; v pragmatic. > hippolytus: does not know moderation nor compromise. Start of play: believes it is enough to worship artemis & represses aphrodite. Does not listen to his son hippolytus instead, calls upon poseidon who owes him a favour. Intervention of a god necessary deos ex machina (artemis reprimands theseus) > artemis" promise of protection: aphrodite will eventually fall in love w/a mortal, but they"ll be dead. Hermes = the messenger god child of maia and zeus.
