CLAS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Strella, Hamartia, Anagnorisis
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Clas 206 lecture 7 oedipus, strella, and tragedy as a genre. >reflects possibilities that myth allowed of rupturing idea of nuclear, hetero family. Writing sometime in the middle of 4th century. Oedipus dates to 429, then the poetic of oedipus dates to 360/350s bc. He"s not trying to write a notebook about how to make a tragedy, but instead he"s trying to explain why/how a story works. He focuses on 2 things (rates it as the best tragedy for these reasons which correspond) >reversal (of fortune, good to bad or bad to good) In oedipus: sudden fall from being kin to being murderer/mom-lover. This is what makes oedipus such a good play. You want peripetea and anagnorisis to happen to a character who"s not entirely good or bad. Something bad happens to them and you feel bad. Something bad happens to him, you feel happy. Not cathartic because bad guy deserved it. >the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.
