01:190:207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Aegisthus, Erinyes, Pheidippides
12 Dec 2018
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Fought in the battle of the marathon (490 bce) A deme or political district in the city state of athens. Site of a battle in 490 bce when the athenians defeated a persian army sent to punish them. The distance of a modern marathon is the distance run by. Pheidippides from the battle to the center of athens to announce the victory. Agamemnon returns from troy with cassandra as his slave. Clytemnestra convinces him to walk on a red carpet symbolizing hubris and later kills him the help of her lover aigisthos and the slave cassandra while he is in his bath. Orestes was in hiding during childhood but has returned now to take revenge. He kills aigisthos but hesitates to kill his mother. The god apollo appears and reassures him that it is the right thing to do. After, he kills his mother, he is attacked by erinyes. Area of concern: the punishment of murderers of family members.
