CMLT316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oedipus The King, Sophocles, Clytemnestra

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5th century- golden age of Athens
Polis of Athens
Gotta be involved and learned
Democracy: rule of the people
Acropolis- city center
Agora: marketplace, site of public buildings
Aeschylus: 525/4-465/5 BCE
Agamemnon-chorus of old citizen men
Libation-Bearers
Eumenides
Proteus
Agamemnon Clytemnestra= Iphigenia, electra, orestes
Agamemnon sacriļ¬ces Iphigenia to Artemis
Clytemnestra takes over Argos while A is away at war
Taken Aā€™s bro Aegisthus as lover
A comes home- C rolls out red carpet for his return (literally)
Oh shit= hubris and pisses off gods
A also brings home Cassandra
C kills A and Cassandra in the bathtub- she shows off the bodies to the chorus
End of story- C realizes she could get punished herself
Aware of cycle of crime and punishment
Woman yet takes a very proactive role
ā€œWhose purpose is a manā€™sā€
Justice
DĆ­ke: Ancient Greek for justice
Law courts big deal for Athens
Eagles and eggs?
ORESTIA
Eumenides ā€œthe kindly onesā€
Areopagus Hill
Apollo is there
Athens and Argos and courts and shit
Two cities are allies
Lit with Athena and Apollo
Women have role in polis
Birth and marriages
Priestesses of athena
THEBAN PLAYS
Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Antigone written ļ¬rst, then at colonus, then tyrannus
Sophocles 497/6 BCE-406/5 BCE
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Clytemnestra takes over argos while a is away at war. A comes home- c rolls out red carpet for his return (literally) C kills a and cassandra in the bathtub- she shows off the bodies to the chorus. End of story- c realizes she could get punished herself. Antigone written rst, then at colonus, then tyrannus. Oedipus marries jocasta: has eteocles, polynices, ismene, antigone. Creon and eteocles want oedipus back in thebes. Oedipus wants theseus to let him die in colonus. Creon holds antigone and ismene to force him to return. Oedipus like no- curses polyneices and eteocles- will die at each other"s hands. Picks up right after colonus- two sisters return to thebes. Both bros kill each other- only gives eteocles proper burial. Antigone tries to convince ismene to help her bury polynices (illegal) Tiresias and oedipus gets pissed at him for telling him the truth. Laius was killed at a crossroads by thebes.

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