CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tisiphone, Megaera, Capaneus
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Emphasize what was discussed in class (more lecture based) Part one: short answer questions (2 marks each - 20 marks) I. e. describe one instance in met where an internal narrator produces a work rival ovid"s own epic. Part 2: passages (choice of 4/5 - 10 marks each - 40 marks) Part 3: essay (1/3 questions: 40 marks) No direct questions/passages from the odyssey - may want to bring it in the essay but not mandatory. Tydeus eats head; fight with river; dies. Struggle over body of tydeus; hippomedon"s intervention and artisteia. Juno sends iris to grove of sleep; night raid. Tisiphone and megaera stir polynices to challenge eteocles to single combat; failed attempts at dissuasion by jocasta and antigone. Fortuna and pietas driven away (pietas fleeing in her personification) Creon get"s power; forbids burial; exiles oedipus. Argive widows entreat theseus to help because creon bans burial for argives.
