Classical Studies 2200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lightning, Lenaia, Euripides
1 Apr 2014
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Very good source for how a myth teller (aeschylus) makes an old myth culturally relevant. Play is about the establishment of the courtroom. Now oedipus is like tiresias: he sees better with no eyes. He is also connected to apollo, though impure. Call no man happy until he has died. Chorus was the slaves of the royal household. Before peloponnesian war, athens v. sparta tension. Peloponnesian war went on for about 30 years. Just before 460, at athens, there was an internal political development (democratic reaction) against aristocrats who have been running the government. Treaty with argos* (an enemy of sparta: democratic changes to court system 462-461. Areopagus court is the seat of the aristocrat. Big change is that he limited the court to homicide. Sparta was slipping and as a result the athenians formed a treated with the city of argos which was an enemy of sparta.
