01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Acharnae, Croesus, Tragic Hero

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

Document Summary

Orestes"s silent friend who accompanies him and the old man to mycenae to exact revenge for agamemnon"s death. Argues with helen so that menelaus would kill her. Represents the stereotypical, dimwitted male who is tricked by his wife and is the target of the women"s sex strike. Acharnians, pericles had died four years before, in the great plague that afflicted athens as the city was being besieged by the spartans. Offered to help hecuba in getting revenge, judged her actions after polymenster"s blinding, His death was the driver for much of the plot of. Electra, electra and brother orestes murder their mother and her lover to avenge. Head and shoulde above the rest. in hecuba he is still alive and the judge for her after she blinds plymenster but then is the driving force for the plot of electra. Polydorus- euripides" hecuba, he is the son of. Agamemnon"s murder, he returns to mycenae to avenge his father"s death.