CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Oeneus, Deianira, Tragedy
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Sometimes trachiniae is dated after euripides" alcestis. Apotheosis going off to the gods, explaining the transition from human to god. He introduces a third speaking part (tritagonistes), makes the chorus bigger (like an additional actor) Heracles doesn"t have this because he dies on the pyre (death of mortal heracles) Explores the properties of what makes a hero a hero representation of ethos (related to the word epic) the choices they make and their consequences. Heracles is brutal to his son, servant, hosts. Passion, like the poison, is a venom that infect heracles. He has become the kind of monsters he sought to destroy. Mythical daughter of oeneus of calydon or of dionysus and althaea. After the death of her brother meleager she unlike her sisters retained her human form. The river god wooed her then heracles who had heard meleager singing praises also arrived on the scene as a suitor. The relationship between the robe and women who weave.
