HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Oedipus And The Sphinx, Satyr Play, Mount Olympus
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As old as hedios (700bc) you already have oedipus and the sphinx. The play of oedipus about people finding out about the crime goes as far back as homer. Two categories of gods: olympian, ones from mount olympus and the chthonic gods, who lived underground and avenged curses. Aeschylus earliest dramatist, he is one of three dramatists who wrote tragedies as well as. Tragedies would be written in trilogies- all on one day then in the morning a non-serious play called a satyr play (satyr"s were half goats) would be played. Oedipus at acme of fame and power. But when, hapless one,he came to knowledge of his ill-starred marriage, impatient of his pain, with frenzied heart he wrought a two-fold ill . Second fold -curses sons, eteocles & polyneices. Now i tremble lest the swift erinnys bring it to pass. The climax is the recognition scene aeschylus joins the curse into the recognition sophocles does not.
