Unformatted text preview: -Zeus’ authority, clytemnestra’s guilty, mother unrelated Votes equal, so Athena is tiebreaker, and Orestes is acquitted, Orestes’ gratitude: military alliance Athena convinces Furies to abandon hostility and take place of honor in city Temple attendants lead out in torchlit procession, and there is a new home in the cave below the hill of Ares as “grave goddesses” Children of Leda and Tyndareus-Dioscuri, Helen, Clyt-Dioscuri: Polydeuces immortal, Castor mortal: Zeus/Tyndareus-Castor dies in dispute over cattle with sons of Aphareus-Polydeuces shares his immortality with brother: Pindar...
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- Fall '08
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- Greek Mythology, Helen, Furies cross-examine Orestes, barbarian Orestes
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