CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Oresteia, Chthonic, Atreus
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Myth and the city: moving from blood feud into law & order, movement from primitive to ordered, blood ties through mother superseded by male, scene change from house of atreus to law court of athens, polis. Born from drops of blood of ouranos" genitals on the ground collected by gaia (association with underground stuff) Pitted against apollo chorus of the eumenides turned into the eumenides (the good ones) by athena: moving from female to male: Pythia prays to three female titans: gaia, themis, phoebe. So, loxias is the spokesman of his father . Apollo focuses on wife betraying husband: chthonic. Mother the seedbed, completely stranger & insignificant. Kindly ones new name for the furies incorporated into city of athens. Given honors by athena end play in procession underground with torches, dressed in purple robes taking torch & purple image in first play of anxiety and bloodiness and correct it into the city & corporate into institution.
