CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Thyestes, Myrtilus, Atreus
9 Mar 2018
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Original person who started the inherited curse or inherited monstrous characteristic for the house of atreus: could look to the family curse as the reason why chrysippus was raped by laius. Cooked and fed his son, pelops, to the gods: demeter has a bit of his shoulder before the gods realize. Pelops is reconstituted with an ivory shoulder. Tantalus is punished with eternal hunger and thirst: is often surrounded by delicious food and water that he can"t touch, hence. Tantalize : sometimes, a rock dangles over his head. Poseidon"s lover in his youth, like zeus and ganymded. Whoever possesses a golden ram will inherit mycenae. Atreus finds the lamb but thyestes steals atreus" wife, a rope, and the ram, becoming king of mycenae. Atreus leaves and returns with an army, banishing thyestes. Then, atreus pretends to reconcile with thyestes and invites him back: he kills thyestes sons by a rope and feeds them to thyestes.
