CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Kolonos, Labdacus, Laius
11 Apr 2018
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Coming to terms w/ killing his father and marrying his mother. Speaks of himself as if he"s already dead, apollo told him about his death at. Zeus casts down thunder, ismene and antigone start crying, they all hold each other. A god calls out to oedipus to ask why he has delayed his death. Oedipus tells everyone but theseus to leave. Dionysus = male, sexual potency, violence, control of male power, and loss thereof. Wine, ecstasy, ambiguity, drama, anti-hierarchy, the anti-apollo. It was shameful for semele to have a baby w/ zeus. Hera tells semele"s sisters that if zeus really loved her he would show her his true form (which would kill her) Dionysus is born from the thigh of zeus. Hera did not want him living in olympus, so zeus gives her a fake cloud baby that she can throw away and dionysus can stay safe. Bacchae (plural of bacchant) also called maenads, a female worshipper of.
