ENGL 103W Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Clytemnestra, Oresteia, Sophocles
18 Oct 2018
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The oresteia: by aeschylus, main characters, oedipus, clytemnestra, cassandra. Iphigenia: plot overview, agamemnon sacrifices his daughter in order to go to war in troy. he brings back a princess. Clytemnestra is salty and murders both oedipus and. Furies follow him around until he gets to trial. He wins trail as electra values males over females. Oedipus the king: by sophocles, main characters, oedipus, jocasta, tiresias, plot overview, oedipus is told when he is younger that he is destined to kill his dad and sleep with his mom and have kids with her. While running away he killed what he thought wa a stranger but turned out to be his dad. He married jocasta when he lived in argos and had no idea it was his mom. A prophet says the only wa the curse on his town would be lifted was if the killer of the king was banished.
