CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oresteia, Clytemnestra, Pylades
20 Apr 2016
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Cassandra: princess, priestess of apollo, prophet, the chorus does not understand. Dramatic irony: breaks her connection to apollo. Throws her veil off, she knows that she is going to die. No one, even the gods, can"t help: enters the house of her own free will. The chorus can"t help: agamemnon has been killed. Akkyklema: wheeled platform to reveal tableaux: clytaemnestra reveals that she dishonourably killed agamemnon and. Reveals that she sacrificed agamemnon for he sacrificed their daughter. Aegisthus the weakened lover: they think that they have solved the problem of the cursed family. Clytaemnestra"s authority at the end: a woman in charge = danger! Learning from suffering does not happen: this learning never happens; agamemnon died too soon, Clyteamnestra doesn"t feel anything, cassandra already new what was happening, and the chorus were too late too know what was happening. Orestes" return to argos with pylades: leaves offerings on his father"s grave, was raised away from argos.
