Classics Chapter 21: Homecomings from Troy

Question 1

nostos / nostoi

Answer 1

homecomings

Question 2

great homecoming stories and authors

Answer 2

1) Odyssey - Homer

2) trilogy: (Agamemnon’s) Orestia- Aeschylus

Question 3

Orestes

Answer 3

Agamemnon’s son

Question 4

Orestia plays

Answer 4

1) Agamemnon
2. Libation Bearers
3) Eumenides

Question 5

What happens in Agamemnon ?

Answer 5

• Cassandra comes back with Agamemnon
• Clyt tests to see if sorry with red carpet -realizes excessive does anyway
• in bath, she nets and stabs him
• ends with Clyt displaying bodies and saying there’s Justice

Question 6

Who does Clytemnestra have an affair with ?

Answer 6

Aegisthus

Question 7

Why does Clytemnestra want to kill her husband?

Answer 7

Clytemnestra and mstress plan to kill for revenge for killing their daughter

Question 8

Cloephori

Answer 8

Libation Bearers - 2nd play of Orestia

= those who pay respects at Ag’s tomb

Question 9

Who lead the Choephori?

Answer 9

Electra - Ag and Clyt’s daughter

resends mom for killing father

Question 10

Who does Electra plot to kill __ with?

Answer 10

their mother Clytemnestra
with Orestes (brother)

Question 11

What happens to Orestes in childhood?

Answer 11

taken from home, raised near Delpi for protection

Oracle tells orestes to avenge father, even if have to kill mom when grown

Question 12

Who does Orestes kill (in order)?

Answer 12

slays Aegisthus

mother

Question 13

What happens right after Orestes kills?

Answer 13

claims his justice

Furies / Erinyes drive him crazy

Question 14

Eumenides

Answer 14

what the Furies become

Question 15

What is the name of Athena’s court?

Answer 15

Court of Areopagus = hill of ares

Question 16

what does apollo tell orestes to do?

Answer 16

go to athens for trial for matricide

Question 17

What revolutionary thing ends the killing cycle in Atreus’ House?

Answer 17

trial by jury with Apollo vs. Furies

Question 18

Apollo’s argument in court

Answer 18

1) he, a god, ordered Orestes and purified him
2) mom not his blood - just a carrier
babies from men like Ahtena

Question 19

Furies’ argument in court

Answer 19

their role in avenging is older than Apollo’s role of purifying

Question 20

Result of court?

Answer 20

jury ties, Athena breaks it in favor of Apollo/Orestia

Question 21

Wht does Athena do for the losers?

Answer 21

offers to turn Furies to Eumenides - “the kindly ones” - protect spirits of athens

Question 22

What does the 1st court bring about?

Answer 22

first laws written and revised by demos

Question 23

Where did Aeschylus fight? Why?

Answer 23

Marathon 490BC - believed in Athens’ greatness