CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Clytemnestra, Sea Monster, Aeschylus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Only up until mycenaean saga (end of today"s lecture) Electra and orestes (orestes is the son of clytemnestra and agamemnon) Orestes was instructed by apollo to kill his mother for killing his father. Fate of orestes (final play of aeschylus" called eumenides) After orestes kills his mother, he sees a vision of horror which was the furies coming after him for killing his mother. So he runs away and goes into exile. Eventually he ends up in apollo"s temple. Apollo instructs him to go to athens and go through a trial (apollo puts the furies to sleep, but eventually chases orestes to athens) Athena sets up a court case and chooses the best athenian jury to judge the case. Apollo speaks on behalf of orestes while the furies made up the prosecution. The furies ( the vengeful ones ) were furious and was about to trash athens, and.