CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Extended Metaphor, Thyestes, Sigmund Freud
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Similar to a mass event in pop culture w/ high poetic text high culture or football game. Includes spectacle sight & sound, dance, extravagant costumes, etc. 3 play wrights competing at one time: spectators very engaged: would boo, cheer, throw food, etc. Religious festival in honor of the god dionysus. 2 types of performers: actors speeches. 3 at most: chorus singing & dancing, collective individual (are characterized as old men collective group identity, belong to a marginal group, become vehicle for larger speculations about the way the world is. 1st play of a trilogy called an oresteia (orestes is agamemnon"s son. ) Central themes : justice, human justice, divine justice, relationship between god"s. Justice of the talio (retaliate) repayment in kind. Example: book of exodus (eye for eye, tooth for tooth, etc) Impersonal force -- pray to the gods, go to court. The doer must suffer the justice of zeus.
