HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Argonautica, Pelias, Iolcos
12 Apr 2017
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We are talking about the story of medea. People find him (euripides) more interesting to read, plots are looser and wilder, bizarre things happen. Husband and wife in conflict with each other, mother and children conflict. We have royal house, different because now has a husband and wife conflict and also between. In the athens, at the time it was produce around 430. Athenian became more interested in their ethnicity, they were into who"s athenian and who"s not. Had a citizenship law, to be a true citizen, both parents have to be athenian. Jason, cultural heroes of the greeks, they are 5-6 heroes of the greek world who are, might be semi-divine. Jason"s uncle is poseidon, he is from a royal household. But jason, perseus, theseus and hercules, older generation of greek heroes. Jason was born to a man name aeson, but his father"s kingdom was surfed by an evil uncle who"s called pelias- he takes over jason"s kingdom.
