ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Telemachus, Atreus, Trojan War
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He tells her to go back to her place as the woman of the house: he does not look up to the mother. Whereas in the father-son relationship, the son strives to grow up and be like his father. Atreus and his brother thyestes have bad blood (both in terms of seducing women, and in a fight for power) The(cid:374), atreus s(cid:272)he(cid:373)es (cid:449)ith aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ife to kill aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374) i(cid:374) order to a(cid:448)e(cid:374)ge the death of his t(cid:449)o (cid:271)rothers/u(cid:374)(cid:272)les as the(cid:455) had (cid:271)ee(cid:374) killed o(cid:374) a (cid:448)isit to atreus"s house. Agamemnon had also sacrificed one of his daughters so this angered clytemnestra/klytaimestra. And so orestes, the son of agamemnon and clytemnestra/ klytaimestra kills his mother and. Is ofte(cid:374) referred to as this stor(cid:455) is starti(cid:374)g to (cid:373)irror od(cid:455)sseus"s fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) situatio(cid:374: penelope is being courted by other suitors, and her son is already pushing past her in power and growing up.
