HUMA 1825 Chapter Notes -Socratic Method, Meletus, Polynices
3 Oct 2013
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Readings dr. fisher law and morality. The furies begins with the pursuit of orestes by the furies, mythological deities who avenge patricide and matricide. Orestes, having killed his mother in response to her murder of his father, is now tormented by these creatures, who view crimes against blood bonds as more heinous than crimes against marriage bonds. In desperation, orestes seeks refuge at the temple of apollo, but apollo is only able to delay the furies by casting a drowsy trance over them. As they sleep, the ghost of clytemnestra, orestes" murdered mother, descends and urges them to resume their pursuit. They follow orestes by smelling the blood of his dead mother in the air and by watching the trails of blood soaking the earth underneath his feet. These horrifying figures catch up with and finally surround orestes, but at the last moment the goddess athena intervenes.
