CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Thyestes, Aegisthus, Atreus
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Zeus -> tantalus -> pelops -> atreus & thyestes. Tantalus sacrifices his son to gods & wants to eat ambrosia. Punished in underworld (odyssey: house of atreus. Family curse: king pelops rules peloponnese (wins chariot race thru bribery, pushed charioteer down cliff, who cursed his family) Thyestes wants the throne atreus has, sleeps with his wife, atreus kills his children in turn & serve them to. Thyestes; thy unknowingly eats them (aegisthus not eaten: aeschylus classical period. Open air theater of dionysos : murders in the house of atreus. Used only as counter examples for penelope and telemachus. Orestes murders aegisthus, only funeral of clytemnestra mentioned. Murder of clytemnestra & agamemnon has consequences. Orestes kills his mother: perversions and abnormalities in the house of atreus. All the greek ships mustered there before embarking for troy. Sacrifice of i demanded by artemis for wind. Set of chain of corrupted sacrifices in oresteia. Greeks stuck at aulis on way to troy.
