01:190:207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Seven Against Thebes, Polynices, Exogamy
12 Dec 2018
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Legendary home of cadmus, heracles, oedipus and dionysos among other. Site of constant occupation from the bronze age. Exiled from caledon in northwestern greece for killing a family member. Identified universal structures of human society, such as kinship rules and nature and culture. A metaphor for the process of turning nature in culture. Today"s argument: the central struggle of antigone is between two failed attempts at cooking nature into culture. The chorus and tiresias refer to instances of improper cooking in the beginning of the play. The chorus refers to polyneices as "flesh eating bird" Teiresias tells creon that gods will not accept his sacrifice. Teiresias warns that all of greek culture will punish him for not burying polyneices. Antigone wants polyneices not to be consumed raw by wild animals. She herself is a wild animal (a viper) Creon allows polyneices to be consumed by dogs and birds.
