HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Clytemnestra, Trojan War, Aeschylus
25 Mar 2014
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The tragedy should be unified itself: each of the 3 plays can be read individually. Line 483: women are depicted as susceptible to spreading rumours: the only evidence we have is the set of beacon fires that get lit up. 681: the choral oaths are broken up into groups of two with a total group of 12. 6 people might speak at the same time. The abduction of helen and her being the cause of the trojan war. Simile of lion cub and the consequences of helen"s actions. The lion cub"s life is the circumstances for which she is responsible for. She is also a prophetess of apollo: page 24, clytemnestra appears before the palace. Menelaos and agamemnon are the sons of atreus: thyestes felt that he was cheated out of the city by atreus. Thyestes has an affair with atreus" wife aerope: thyestes comes back as a suppliant. Atreus kills his sons and serves it to thyestes.
