HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meidias, Aeschylus, Clytemnestra
17 Oct 2016
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Explain eminty; was continuous disputes, brawls, slandering people, undermining them, it was a public ritual, rivilairy was primary. For example, demonthesis vs medias; situation of enminty; your rivail can based you on honor reputation. Honor is so fragile in society, it is the essential security. Include terms such as sycophant, hubris, in relating term cases. Furies description and appearances in the play pg, (119): The play starts with pythia, the priest the followers of the god are very important. They have a fortune calling; they understand what rituals need to be performed. She arrives upon the temple and is horrified (cid:271)y the furies. Furies are see(cid:374) to illustrated as (cid:862)gorgo(cid:374)s(cid:863) a(cid:374)d they ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)o (cid:449)i(cid:374)gs, they are dark da(cid:374)k i(cid:374) hideous stench. They are gendered-female; in society gendered-female are seen as not standing with within the law; they are outside the law. There dieseas represents, death aging, disability, vengeance, anger, hatred, wounds that do not heal.
