HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Atreus, Umbilical Cord, Aeschylus
12 Apr 2017
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Aeschylus" chorus is difficult to read because it is one of the earliest greek tragic poets. Choral ode long sections where the chorus is singing. Ode"s are dense and imagistic, full of imagery, beautiful little poem in themselves. Moving periods of 50-60 years, the chorus changes, becomes less dense, less poetic. Chorus is integrated much more to the action. The democracy was experimental, it changed, responded to the events of history, it went through a period of terrene and emerged to the other way as much stronger institution. Commander of the vast powerful navy and navy that in fact enacted an empire around the sea. Athens in one hand building an empire and on the other hand domestically has kind of perfected this unusual governmental system. The genre of athenian tragedy emerges step in step with greek political democracy. Same character but put to a different use, a new genre.
