01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Pylades, Everyman

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Classical Humanities
• Course: 01:190:205
• Professor: John Mc Glew

Document Summary

Hecuba- wife of priam/trojan king, blinds polymestor, kills his children for revenge, argues with helen so that menelaus would kill her. Pericles- the former populist leader of athens, he is blamed in the acharnians for starting the. In the play, the acharnians, pericles had died four years before, in the great plague that afflicted athens as the city was being besieged by the spartans. Pylades- in euripides" electra, pylades is orestes"s silent friend who accompanies him and the old man to mycenae to exact revenge for agamemnon"s death. He is the mute witness to the play"s drama in much the same way that the audience is. Parabasis- it is a point in the play when all of the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly. They partially or completely abandon their dramatic role to talk to the audience on a topic irrelevant to the subject of the play.