CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Timber Falls, Euripides, Argot
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Cain killed abel and g-d sent cain away cain turned white with fear that he would be punished, so he and all of his descendants have white skin though everyone else had darker skin. Libaion bearers: women, in passion, commit acts of violence to those who are close to them: male fear of what women might be like. Euripides takes horror story of what women could do. Devoted wife (literally followed her husband to the ends of the world from her point of view) Special powers (robe) which allows her to exercise power over jason it has poison on it. Emoional: places importance on moral values faithfulness to jason idelity, honor, embodies these good values more than jason does more honorable/virtuous than him, ends up commiing revenge, but is torn about it. Killing children: refuses burial jason can"t bury them. Jason is going to die when his argot rots and the imber falls on his head (she tells him)
