notes

  • Part of the Oresteia
  • Apollo as Orestes’ protector
  • Mythologization of transition between retributive justice to law and order
  • Apollo’s argument: womb as an incubator
  • Furies → Eumenidese
  • Structuralism
    • Early 20th century Europe
    • Examine systems and structures underlying human culture
      • Structural binaries
      • Analyze and approach of ideology
    • Froma Zeitlin 1978 “The Dynamics of Misogyny” points out dichotomies in the Oresteia