CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Clytemnestra, Upper Class, Exemplum
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Performed in a competition winner received glory. Performed in a trilogy one after the other. Physical divide between the chorus and the professional actors. One person always believes the they are ending the curse but it takes. Cannibalism (a family is killed expect for one standing kid and fed to the. Before he goes to troy there are no winds, he must sacrifice one of his. He tells her that she is going to marry achilles but he is going to kill her. Background to the house of aeschylus something extreme to end. cousins) daughters to get back the winds. Tells where we are and where in the myth we are picking up. We learn that clytemnestra has the strength of a man and she is in charge. We also learn that something is wrong in the house, but they wont tell. Clytemnestra is having an affair with agamemnon"s cousin.