Classical Studies 2200 Lecture 1: Classics-Final-Exam

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Birth of tragedy simultaneous with establishment of democracy, late 6th century. Agamemnon"s doomed house severs as a powerful statement about athenian democracy. Plots based on stories from mythic (epic) past. Often highlights tensions between loyalty to the larger community (polis) and loyalty to the family (oikos) Recall prometheus bound: aeschylus portrayed a divine power split between zeus and prometheus, eventually resolved and reconciled, similar in oresteia, between furies and the olympians, eventually resolving and becoming a harmonious whole. The audience of athenian tragedy knows from other stories the story of agamemnon"s return. In athenian tragedy, familiar myths are enacted on the stage. The interest is how playwright chose to interpret the story. Some changes could be introduced, but the basic plot is fixed. This contributes to a sense of inevitable fate. Atreus and aerope has agamemnon and menelaus. He stole their divine food and revealed secretes.

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