CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Nocturnal Emission, Oligarchy, Kolonos
9 Apr 2018
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Dramatizes athen"s acceptance of oedipus as a purified hero against oedipus. Tyrannos"s narrative of thebes"s rejection of oedipus as a polluted criminal. Has sanctuaries to poseidon, prometheus, and eumenides. Had been the meeting spot for the leaders of an oligarchic coup in 411. Oedipus is sitting on the spot of a man who"s name the town now bears. In the odyssey agamemnon tells achilles he still has kleos even in death. Kolonos - a local topographical feature like a rock tomb. Kolonos - the local hero identified w/ that tomb (the rock is the hero?) Poseidon had a wet dream and while he was asleep he made a horse called skuphios. Demeter and poseidon took the form of horses and mated, created a divine horse named areion/erinys, derived from erinuein - to be angry". The precinct of colonus includes spaces specifically for poseidon (thorikios rock), Connection b/t the eumenides and the areopagus in athens as discussed in aeschylus"s.
