CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Seven Against Thebes, Polynices, Theban Cycle
22 Sep 2016
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Curse: he was fated to be cursed. Blessing: he seek the truth and when he found out that the truth was actually that he was cursed, he took responsibility for it he was apotheosized! We tend to get our stories from the athenians! They told a lot of stories, and these stories from the athenian perspective were the ones who usually survive. He curse his own sons who abandoned him but blessed his daughters who wandered with him when he was banished. Death of the sons of oedipus (seven vs thebes) and rule of creon. Creon took over after anteacles and polyneices died. He said that anteacles will be buried with honour (since he was the one ruling. Thebes when he died) and polyneices will not be buried at all. Antigone secretly buried polyneices at night since he was her brother! Antigone goes against the king she broke the law to do what is right.
