CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Erinyes, Menelaus, Atreus
11 Mar 2013
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The oresteia trilogy (written by aeschylus): nostos (return home) The agamemnon: at argos: clytemnestra (taken over control of the household while agamemnon was gone, was not faithful to agamemnon) and aegisthus (son of thyestes, was. Clytemnestra"s lover: the triumphant return beacon light from sails, agamemnon kisses ground to rejoice being home. Goes in his chariot back home with cassandra: hybris: the walking on the carpet" never boasts that it was agamemnon"s own doing, but rather the gods help. Clytemnestra tells him to step on silk tapestry as a sign of superiority even though he didn"t want to, but clytemnestra taunts him by saying what would priam do? agamemnon thus commits hybris. Cassandra tells the elder groves that both herself and agamemnon will die by. The libation bearers: orestes (son of clytemnestra and agamemnon) in exile, phocis (area around. Sees lock of hair, knows it"s her brother.
