HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Euripides, Culpable Homicide, Esure
24 Feb 2017
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Infanticide in greek myth: males (agamemnon, heracles/hercules, tantalus, even uranus and cronos, motivation -- intergenerational rivalry, females (ino, agave, medea, procne, (cid:862)i k(cid:374)o(cid:449) o(cid:374)l(cid:455) o(cid:374)e (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) i(cid:374) histor(cid:455)/ who killed her o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:272)hildre(cid:374). I(cid:374)o it (cid:449)as (cid:863) (cid:894)chorus, page 344: motivation revenge. Wi(cid:374)fre(cid:455) oprah, (cid:862)mothers who kill their childre(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1007)(cid:895) The(cid:373)es i(cid:374) euripides" medea: language and reason vs. passion, conflict between the sexes, medea the wife from hell, jason the indifferent husband, family psychodramas. Intergenerational rivalry: dangers to (and of) step-children, deconstruction of the heroic code (jason a pseudohero, play performed on eve of a major war) Indifference of the gods to suffering (contemporary scepticism) Son of aeson pelias, step brother of aeson. Medea a (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373) of profili(cid:374)g (cid:894)(cid:862)the usual suspe(cid:272)t(cid:863) M(cid:455) (cid:373)other"s ha(cid:374)ds! (cid:863) (cid:862)ho(cid:449) (cid:272)a(cid:374) i es(cid:272)ape to (cid:373)(cid:455) (cid:373)other ha(cid:374)ds? (cid:863) Medea to the (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s (cid:272)orpses: (cid:862)it (cid:449)as (cid:455)our father"s si(cid:272)k(cid:374)ess that killed (cid:455)ou(cid:863) (line 1343) (cid:862)i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ti(cid:272)ide(cid:863) (cid:894)cri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al code, r. c. , (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1009), (cid:272).
