CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Erechtheion, Tyrant
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Thebes is this other place where athens can set places (experiments with darker side of human nature) Autochthony: refers to people/ thing that live in the same place in which they arose ex. ) Athens believe their ancestors rose from the earth and they now live on that. Autochthony provides legitimacy to the people who live there to live there. Cadmus has to slay the ismenian dragon to found his city. Ismenian dragon was the son of ares; ares gets angered by murder and turns cadmus into a serpent himself (snake resurges again) In theban myths, all attempts of heroes to defeat chaos/ establish peach ultimately result in this circling back to the beginning (unsuccessful) People of thebes are born from the snake"s teeth being sowed into ground by cadmus and survivors of the civil war between these men. Occurring theme in theban myths: blood relatives killing each other. Atavism: blood relations killing each other ex. )
