GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Satyr Play, Oresteia, Unending

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: B.n

Document Summary

November 13, 2014: curses are an important aspect of the trojan cycle, trilogy of plays oresteia. 458 bce: tragic reinterpretation of homeric myth, there were certain problems with the conduct of the greeks after the war. Full involved with the shaping of athens: veteran of battles of marathon 490 bce and salamis (the athenians helped to repel the. Persians) 479 bce: what is justice, revenge (notion of an ancient unwritten law), unending cycles of violence tantalus and pelops. Orestes kills his mother to avenge agamemnon"s death: aeschylus trys to show us that there is a better way democracy, justice. Hubris: guy who sacrificed his own daughter rode into town with his war prize at his side, his wife is sleeping with his cousin, cassandra foretells trouble, no one believes her, clytemnestra wastes no time and murders agamemnon. Aegisthus helped her ( thyestes curse: revenge for the death of her daughter (iphigenia, play ends with aegisthus joining clytemnestra on stage.