POLI 1001 : Exam 1 Review Answers
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Strengths: social nature of human beings, protection, security. Weaknesses: ethnocerntricism: the only people that matter are those of one"s tribe, Developing the use of costumes and a second speaking actor, innovative use of the chorus and of visual effects, exceptional language: identify the following: aegisthus, agamemnon, menelaus, clytemnestra, orestes, pylades, Aegisthus- sole surviving son of the blood feast of the house of atreus, clytaemnestra"s lover and a tyrant. Agamemnon-clytaemnestras husband, gone for 10 years, sacrificed his daughter, iphigenia, son of atreus, ruler of argos, brother of menelaus. Menelaus-brother of agamemnon, husband of helen, insult to his house that leads to war with troy. Clytemnestra- wife of agamemnon, kills husband, tyrant, lover og aegisthus. Pylades- friend/brother of orestes who convinces him to kill his mother. Iphigenia- daughter of agamemnon and clytaemnestra that was sacrificed. Tribalism: a host of narrowly conceived faiths antagonistic to any notion of interdependence and civic mutuality. Out of the savagery of human violence can come some harmony.
