Miasma in Greek Tragedy
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- Created on: 05-06-16 12:43
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- Miasma in Greek Tragedy
- Antigone
- Ancestral curse left over from Oedipus
- The unburied body of Polynikes because he is a "traitor" to the state
- Also functions as the Aristotlean Incentive Moment
- The first edict of Creon as "the new man for the new day"
- Antigone buries it twice!
- Hippolytus
- The exile and murder of Hippolytus by Theseus
- Uses the wishes of his own father, Poseidon!
- Theseus is in exile because of miasma!
- The murder of his cousins, the Pallantids
- Perhaps why he goes to the Delphi Oracle just like in Heracles by Euripides
- Phaedra is scared of her miasma - "a pollution stains my mind"
- Concept of miasma being an internal struggle
- Theseus sees Hippolytus as stained with miasma as he considers the "****" of Phaedra -incest
- Use of familial imagery - "Outrage your fathers wife"
- The exile and murder of Hippolytus by Theseus
- Oedipus
- Plague is the physical representation of the Miasma
- Functions as the Aristolean Incentive Moment
- The Blood Pollution is due to the fact of the murderer of Laius being present in Thebes
- Repetition of "blood bonds" in narrative
- Oedipus coupling with his mother
- Prophecy
- Hubristic
- Ancestral miasma from Laius **** of Chrysippus
- Oedipus curses his children at the end
- Plague is the physical representation of the Miasma
- Medea
- The killing of her children!
- She contemplates the moral and emotional restrains of miasma through the majority of the narrative
- She doesn't allow for Jason to bury his children
- Miasma is in her very backstory as she "persuaded the daughters of Pelias to kill their father"
- The killing of her children!
- Antigone
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