HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thyestes, Atreus, Clytemnestra
12 Oct 2015
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525 in eleusis, near athens, and died in 456 b. c. e. Referred to as the father of greek tragedy. First of athens" three rat tragedians: aeschylus, sophocles, and euripides. Lived in the most glorious era of athenian history. A dramatic genre that presents the heroic or moral struggle of an individual, culminating in his or her ultimate defeat. A type of tragic play that surfaces mainly in a society of a fixed hierarchy of political and/or religious beliefs. Aristotle (384 - 322 b. c. ) in his poetics determines mimesis, catharsis, hamartia. This tragedy tells of agamemnon"s victorious return from troy. The tragedies of the play occur as a result of the crimes committed by agamemnon"s family: His father atreus boiled the children of his own brother thyestes, and served them to him. Clytemnestra"s lover, aegisthus (thyestes"s only surviving son), seeks revenge for that crime. Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter, iphigenia, to gain a favorable wind to troy.
