Nothing in particular

Matricide- killing your mother
tragedy- how do we deal with suffering?
Calasso's origin of tragedy is the "dance around goats" or the "dance of goats."
The function of Dionysus/wine: drive people out of their minds
chthonic- of or pertaining to the underworld
The Furies- the Greek spirits of retribution (blood crime)
Epiphany- sudden manifestation of the energy or power in a realm beyond your understanding
The Furies represent a personification of the psyce- thoughts of guilt
Metaphors of nets, yokes, chains, ropes
chthonic->underworld->maternal->witch->Medea->cunning->Hecate (Shakespeare)->the eye that men w/ in a patriarchy look at women and see the demonic
Euminides- the kindly ones- the Furies become the Euminides in the 3rd book of the Oresteia
Pg 171- Clynemestra: "What we did was destiny."