HUM 4825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Thyestes, Atreus, Myrtilus
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Pan gives it to atreus, but thyestes seduces atreus" wife aerope, who gives him the ram, and thyestes is declared king. Holds banquet in his honor and to affirm their pact. Oresteia trilogy written by aeschylus that tells last 2 generation of the cursed house (tantalus (cid:0) pelops (cid:0) atreus (cid:0) agamemnon (cid:0) orestes) Says agamemnon needs to sacrifice oldest daughter for killing a deer sacred to artemis. Cassandra"s prophecy: yes, i am persuaded by the evidence i see, as i weep for these children murdered, for the cooked flesh eaten by their father . Great is the evil being plotted in this palace, intolerable to its friends, hard to atone for, and one where defense is far away . As you wash your husband, who shares your bed . But the net is she who shares the guilt for the murder . She takes him in the robes and strikes him with the black-horned weapon.
