POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clytemnestra, Aeschylus, Oresteia
21 Sep 2017
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* do the reading or these notes will make no sense * Antigone continued: living a just life, choosing a good course of action requires morals and good judgement, each of the characters is a little wrong and have to sacri ce something. Ii - plot run-through: in a set of a trilogy, agamemnon, the libation bearers, eumendes. Wife had an affair > plots with him to kill agamemnon when he returns. > succeeds and angers the furies > they pursue him until they drive him insane. Orestes returns to apollo and begs him to help > sends him to athena. Athena decides to help > makes a jury > acquits orestes. > are they the same: lots of ways to approach this question, lies in your own ideas and thoughts. Ex. it may lay in the motivation of the person. Ivb - legal institutions vs. vengeance: athenas solution. Puts him on trial: process not passion.
