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Nostoi (returns)
One of the lost texts of the Epic Cycle, it describes all of the returns except for that of Odysseus, which is contained in the Odyssey.
Aphrodite make who”s wife be unfaithful?
Diomedes
Who raped Cassandra in Athena’s temple?
Ajax the Lesser
Who killed Paris?
Philoctetes
Who is Achillies son?
Neoptolemus
How was Neoptolemus killed?
Killed at Delphi by the priests as revenge for denouncing Apollo for killing his father, Achilles.
Orestea
Because it reinforces through a court decision that male life is more important than female life.
It ends revenge killing as an acceptable court system…
Myth is social charter
The Oresteia
Trilogy of Tragedies
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides
The Eumenides is another name for what?
The Furies
question
***The Eumenides is the 1st court room drama in western literature.
Who is the son of Zeus and Semele
Dionysus
Dionysia
God of the vine, grapes, wine
God of Ritual madness – many cults worshipped him
God of religious ecstasy
God of fertility
God of theater
Where does the word Thespian come from?
First performance was by Thespis 534 BCE, ergo
“thespian”
related to drama or acting
Who is gangster asf?
Clytemnestra
The second feminist argument in literature is what?
Clytemnestra and the elders of Argos and defending Helen.
The Libation Bearers
Orestes kills his mother and her man because Apollo tells his to.
Who does Orestes beg for help?
Athena
Who is the judge
Athena
Who is. the defense attorney?
Apollo
Who is the prosecuting attorneys?
The Furies
The Jury is split…
5-5
Who casts the ote for acquittal?
Athena
Who renames the furies Eumenides?
Athena
Who is Orestes the king of?
Argos