Classics in Sarasota

Reading classical works aloud in Sarasota, and talking about them.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Notes on Persuasion in Eumenides


Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes. 
Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC.

  • The path of good speech 
  • Precarious Odyssey: Apollo vs. Athena in the Oresteia 
  • What are you doing? A failed scene of persuasion in Eumenides 
  • There will be blood: Vengeance beforehand 
  • Irresistible Athena meets Immovable Furies 
  • The manner of Apollonian Justice - a brief digression 
  • "The whole fashion of your form" 
  • Dancing with Furies: The Persuasion of the Erinyes 
  •  Voiceless Informers: A contrast of entrances in the Oresteia 
  • Prosaic Peripeteia: How could Aeschylus be so undramatic?
  • Clytemnestra vs. Athena: Two peripeteias in the Oresteia 
  •  Regarding the Fury: Persuasion and detheatricalization in Eumenides 


Tom Matrullo at 6/10/2020 03:16:00 PM
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