CLASS 40 Lecture 10: 10-26-15
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2 steps: establish insituional process of trial (trial by jury) Orestes tells us that he has been ritually/religiously puriied (the old, tradiional way of dealing with murder) We see orestes go through being tried for murder and eventually being. Athenians were proud of establishing trial by jury acquited. Beginning of the 3rd play, we have the cycle of violence and aeschylus makes the problem more diicult. Argos delphi: (problem can"t be solved in delphi, audience is expecing that delphi is where the problem will be solved, apollo"s priestess (pythia) comes and explains the power and authority that apollo and this temple have. Apollo can protect orestes for the ime being but can"t solve the problem sends orestes away: aeschylus then sends orestes to athens. Orestes comes to statue of athena, then athena herself comes on stage but not even athena can solve it passes the problem on to the mortal ciizens of.
