CLA 3380 Lecture 7: Lecture #7 (5/19)
17 Feb 2017
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Laius kills usurpers, sent into exile; fact persistent in myth is that he is out of town , whether he was exiled or what we"re not totally sure, but he wasn"t there we know that. 476 bc, lost tetralogy (set of 4 plays) by aeschylus. This fear and pity should lead to katharsis ( cleansing, purification ) Protagonist = first actor (protos = first ) Asks him for further insight; teiresias starts hinting at awful truth; oedipus gets angry with him. Blinds himself for what he saw (not in every version!) Oideo, to swell > swollen foot , puffed up . Oida, to know > he who knows . Who by their own recklessness hold sorrows beyond the allotment of fate. Frailty of human existence (right action = self-destruction) Pathei mathos, knowledge comes from suffering (aeschylus) Psychology of the unconscious (1912), psychological types (1921) Autochthonous born of the earth itself i. e. not immigrants.
