HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clytemnestra
17 Feb 2017
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Feuds are never resolved, problems keep occurring. Pythia sees women and called them a hideous sight (p. 119-120) Disease, puss, rotting inside (zombies or corpses) - illness, aging, dying, self. (p. 125) apollo and furies have been allies, furies represent slaughter or payback or justice. Furies are despised by gods, but the gods need and use the furies. Furies represent the victim (line 326, we sing for the victim. ) Line 360 we eagerly ful ll this obligation, absolving the gods from this care zeus detests our gruesome kind, and shuns us from his side - the furies do the gods dirty work. Apollo drove orestes to kill his mother (using the furies) page 80 the great oracle of. Apollo will never betray me me to the bone, they foretold storms of suffering if i did not avenge my father"s killers. line 269-273. The furies chase orestes after he did what they wanted him to do (kill his mother)
