Some inversions not righted: a note on Aeschylus' Eumenides

• David H. Porter ^[1]
  1. [1] Williams College

     Williams College

     Town of Williamstown, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 101, Nº 1, 2005, págs. 1-10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the Oresteia Aeschylus colors numerous recurrent images with negative and twisted associations through most of the trilogy but restores their positive connotations at the end of Eumenides-fertility, light,ritual and sacrifice, etc. Notably missing, however, is any such righting of the twisted sexuality prominent early in the trilogy (e.g., Ag. 601-4, 1388-92, 1447), an omission especially notable given that just a few years earlier Aeschylus had handled this theme so positively in Danaids (ft. 44). Eumenides refers to marriage and children, but its approach to sexuality is to ignore and contain rather than to confront and restore.