CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Polynices, Laius, Pentheus
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Theban sagas were very popular - sources today will vary; along with many fragments. Including oedipus trilogy - fit nicely as a trilogy, but not written/performed together - written at different times. Themes of: fate, prophecy, duty, vicissitudes of fortune. Europa jumps onto his back, they leave o. Depicted a lot in art, especially since the renaissance. Brother of europa, went to look for her. Follows a cow, taken to thebes where the cow collapses. Killed the sacred snake who guarded the spring, athena told him to plant the teeth of the serpent. Harmonia, daughter of ares and aphrodite, given to cadmus o o o. Semele had an affair with zeus, has dionysus. Pentheus" skepticism - despises dionysian celebrations - arrests him. Dionysus, in retaliation, makes women go mad and insane: maenads. Sparagmos - dionysian ritual, where an animal is ripped limb by limb. In this case, pentheus is ripped apart, instead of an animal -
