HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Odysseus, Aegisthus, Double Consciousness
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Choral ode ii: troy & helen had it coming, bcs of their own hubris. This is where they blame helen for the war: helen is hellish --but who else does it apply to, helen and clytemnestra are sisters. You in the audience can hear the chorus as applying to someone else (double consciousness: lion: home-reared trouble also applies to: Iphigeneia"s murder by agamemnon (iphigenia is the lion cub being killed) ( yoke of compulsion : clytemnestra, orestes (orestes is raised in the house and will take revenge) Cassandra calls aegisthus a lion reared in the house. Apollo"s gift and revenge (cassandra is a prophet, she was given this gift by apollo, she refused to have sex with him, he cursed her by making all her prophesies true, but no one would believe her. Choral ode iii: ch feels inchoate anxiety about ag"s hyper-success.
