CLASSIC 36B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Athens Festival, Satyr Play, Aeschylus
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It shows difficulty of understanding and obtaiing social and religious order: three trageties followed by a satyr play, ephialtes" curtailment of the powers of the areopagus was awesome, showed murder trial, first play agamemnon. Murdered by his wife clytemnestra and his cousin aegisthus who became his wifes lover. Children orestes and electra which don"t know know whether to kill mom or leave father"s death alone. Eventually murder mom and lover: second play the libation bearers. Orestes is followed by avenging goddesses known as the furies: third play the eumenides. Oretes dies: taken place in athens, ortestes wants a fair trial by government, goddess saves him by casting vote, now tamed furies are now given a good name, eumenides, the kindly ones. Sophocles: poet, wrote oedipus tyrannus, family discord, killed father and married mother, portrays blind her. Euripides: madea, undermine views of what makes a hero.
