Sacrifice, Politics and Animal Imagery in the Oresteia

Authors

  • Dimitrios Kanellakis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v68i0.113598

Abstract

In this paper I explore how sacrifice and politics, two central aspects of the Oresteia, are presented through animal imagery and how they are indissolubly linked. In the first section I discuss how the animal imagery attributed to Cassandra constructs a semantic parallelism between her and Iphigenia, the two of them being the only innocent victims in the bloody circle of this trilogy. In the second section I examine how animals are linked to governments and how the quantitative, temporal, and spatial arrangement of animal imagery reveals their sequence.

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Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Kanellakis, D. (2019). Sacrifice, Politics and Animal Imagery in the Oresteia. Classica Et Mediaevalia, 68, 37–69. https://doi.org/10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v68i0.113598