HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Matricide, Clytemnestra, Appeasement
25 Mar 2014
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The new ordinances are the laws that are being put forth by apollo and athena, apollo claiming orestes had his permission to commit matricide. Orestes is his suppliant and apollo will act as his defence counsel, athena as judge, and. Agamemnon, page 102: the furies respond by saying how they don"t punish people who kill their spouses since there is no blood relationship there, but there is in matricide and patricide. The arguments apollo advocates: line 615: page 102: Apollo is appealing to zeus as his ultimate authority. Clytemnestra"s blood was justly shed due to a patriarchal view. It is more horrific for a woman to kill a man of noble birth than a man killing a woman: page 103: the nature of parenthood seems very patriarchal. The woman is a passive figure for the embryo: athena herself is born from zeus" head.
