Differences In The Myth Of Electra By Euripides

The similarities and differences found in myths that validate Greek culture, are found throughout the textbook. We will look at oikos, kyrios, dowry rights, and how the characters did and did not represented Greek culture from myths. We will examine Greek culture on how the women were given specific rules to live by. How males had to obey the gods and were punished if they did not, according to myths. Some of the main characters we will observe are, Hercules, Clytemnestra, Pelops and other mythological characters on the “how” they are to behave, according to Greek myths and the divine laws, values, and morals that connect and disconnect with culture norms. The myths I will be pulling are from, The Mycenaean Saga, Euripides, Electra, Sophocles …show more content…
She abandons her legitimate children, Orestes and Electra. Her daughter Electra confronts her about how she saw her mother primping for another, before her sister Iphigenia was sacrificed and her father had left for Troy. Clytemnestra was committing adultery, before her husband, Agamemnon had fought in Troy and brought back the Trojan princess, Cassandra. According to the lecture, Agamemnon ruled his kingdom and therefore it was not against any law to bring her into his kingdom and would be considered a rightful thing, if he did not marry …show more content…
When Polybus died, a messenger was sent to Oedipus that he was heir to Polybus thrown. He refused to go back to Corinth, for fear of what the oracle Delphi had told him. This part of the myth connects how a king could be adopted in to a family and become an heir to his adopted fathers thrown. According to Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus was infuriated with his son Polynices behavior for helping to ban him from the kingdom. Pelops disowns him and curses him with the dark abyss of Tartarus, the goddesses of the Eumenides, and Ares. His authority was recovered over his son, and proves that Pelops had not done a hubris thing among the