CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sophocles, Tiresias, Chariot Racing
Document Summary
People were honoring the heroes as a ritual remembrance of where they came from genetically and physically. Affirming their links to the founders of their family. For ancient greeks, mythology was visual as much as it was oral (shrines, temples, statues, etc) A prime example of how the everyday greeks thought of and lived with mythology as their basis in their culture. Before he left thebes, he was considered a plague and was driven out whereas in. Colonus his story has reached the ends of the earth and he suddenly becomes this strange, divine figure. *oedipus always rebuking those older than he is (teiresias, jocasta, creon, etc) Sophocles and his son: his son takes his father sophocles to court and was trying to brand. Sophocles as a senile old man and wanted to take control of his finances and life but sophocles intervenes and proves to the judges (by reading a poem) that he is not senile.
