CC 222: Greek Tragedy
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CC 222 : Reflections on the Furies
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Instructions.
 

Please answer the following questions about Aeschylus' Furies, devoting 6-10 thoughtful sentences to each response.

Due: Monday, April 16, noon.

   

 
   
1.
 

Why must the Furies hound Orestes for slaying his mother, but not Clytemnestra for killing her husband?

   
2.
 

What do you make of the trilogy's ostensibly happy ending?

   
3.
 

Identify an exemplary theme, character, mode of performance, or piece of stagecraft in the Furies, and use it to explain how tragedy works as a genre.

   
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