CLASSIC 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Aerope, Erinyes, Clytemnestra
Document Summary
Ode 3, antistrophe 1: statement that destruction of troy is due to paris". Ironically refers to the relationship between paris and helen, hardly a legitimate marriage. Ode 3, strophe 4, refers to pre-ious crime of house of atreus. Talked about, if someone in your family is killed, you ha-e to seek - engeance in that indi-idual, which puts endless cycle of blood shed. Audience knows its referring to tantulus and the chopping up of. And also situation between atreus and thyestes" eating sons. Here states house has problems going back in generations. Looks forward to clytemenstreas actions because shes going to welcome him back but shes about to kill him. She was cursed because apollo fell in lo-e with her and she went back on her word. Agamemnon notes destruction of troy and that gods were on side of greeks.
