PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Aegisthus, Maternal Bond, Clytemnestra
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Orestes(cid:495) disguised tells clytemnestra he has died (cid:523)orestes has died(cid:524) Chorus says, (cid:498) she is insincere behind those eyes(cid:499) Cilissa, the nurse and the chorus(cid:495) involvement in the plot. Choral songs moving from myth to direct engagement with the plot. She has been very smart in the first half of the play and in most of this half. She tries to manipulate orestes with her speech (cid:498)take pity on this breast that nursed you(cid:499) Justice again (cid:498)(ow can ) kill my mother pylades(cid:499)? (is three only lines in the play: (cid:498) what would become of the oracles of. And (cid:498))t is better to be hated by all men then by one god(cid:499). Chorus struggles with the (cid:494)rightness(cid:495) of orestes(cid:495) justice. Orestes says he(cid:495)s going back to delphi for the gods. Apollo said if he avenged his father(cid:495)s death he would not be. Sing his praise then takes a dark turn. As they sing the furies chase orestes off stage.
