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Greek Tragedy Origins: Between the 6th century and the 5th century B.C. evilContext: concern with explaining evil tragedyevil part of human natureThe tragedy sees evil as a part of human nature, which –Partakes and aspires to the Divine (but also) –Destroys the Divine cosmic violence –Evil results from cosmic violence. Curses/Fate/OracleCurses/Fate/Oracle responsibility But the tragedy also introduces also the notion of responsibility accidental -Good and bad appear to be accidental, however innocence does not eliminate responsibility. We are both determined by the past and active agents of our life in the Polis (Polis  Universe).

Sophocles’ “Theban Plays” General, priest, member of Athenian government Contests. Sophocles began by defeating Aeschylus. Antigone (written B.C.) Oedipus the King (written circa 427 B.C.) Oedipus at Colonus (written 405 B.C.) Logical sequence: –Oedipus the King, –Oedipus at Colona, –Antigone (one of the four children King Oedipus had with his wife/mother Jocasta. Cursed genealogy).

Creon: “…I here proclaim to the citizens about Oedipus’ sons. For Eteocles, who died this city’s champion, showing his valor’s supremacy everywhere, he shall be buried in his grave with every rite of sanctity given to heroes under earth. However, his brother, Polyneices, a returned exile, who sought to burn with fire from top to bottom his native city, and the gods of his own people; who sought to taste the blood he shared with us, and lead the rest of us to slavery—I here proclaim to the city that this man shall no one honor with a grave and none shall mourn. You shall leave him without burial; you shall watched him chewed up by birds and dogs and violated. Such is my mind in the matter; never by me shall the wicked man have precedence in honor over the just. But he that is loyal to the state in death, in life alike, shall have my honor.”

Antigone: “…it was not Zeus that made the proclamation; nor did Justice, which lives with those below, enact such laws as that, for mankind. I did not believe your proclamation had such power to enable one who will someday die to override God’s ordinances, unwritten and secure. They are not of today and yesterday; they live forever; none knows when first they were. These are the laws whose penalties I would not incur from the gods, through fear of any man’s temper.”

Or CreonAntigone Law of the CityDivine Law Moral Order: human law.Ethical order: law that makes individuals into humans Concern with the earthly order, with politics. Concern with a trascendent order (that has political consequences) PatriarchyWomen’s power

Antigone What is Destiny? How do power and fate relate to each other? What is tragic about tragedy?

What do Creon and Antigone respectively highlight and overlook about power? Who is right and who is wrong? Or, rather, how are they right and wrong? (Whose side would you take?) Who is more democratic? Why?

Multiple voices, all of them necessary to discover the truth. The truth lies hidden and broken into pieces (puzzle). Foucault on Oedipus. trajectoryAs in life, both the beginning and the end are previously known; the crucial difference lies in the trajectory. Dilemmas between truth, power, and duty (Oedipus, Creon) Paradoxes: –Power makes us blind. –Blindness allows us to see further (Tiresias) salvationdestruction –Proximity between salvation and destruction. Greek Tragedy

Nietzsche concludes that... “Understanding kills action, action depends on a veil of illusion (…) True understanding, insight into the terrible truth, outweighs every motive for action, for Hamlet and Dionysiac man alike.”