Geras Thanonton: An Investigation Into the Claims of the Homeric Dead

Garland, Robert S.J.

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“…Per una disamina dei possibili significati di geras cf. Garland 1982, dalla cui analisi delle occorrenze omeriche del termine si ricava che esso «embraced all the customary practices executed both before, and, probably, at the time of burial, on behalf of the dead» (69); esso indicava cioè una gamma variegata di azioni rituali in onore dei morti (la sepoltura, la processione funebre, il lamento, ecc. ), ma prima di tutto la sepoltura con un tymbos e una stele: τὸ γὰρ γέρας ἐστὶ θανόντων (Il.…”

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“…53 The Ghost of Elpenor explicitly states that his shade would become a supernatural affliction on Odysseus in the living world were he to be left unburied (11.73). Despite such threats, however, not one of the Homeric dead ever manifests power over the living, nor 54 Hence all the dishonoring of enemy corpses and seeming unconcern for the cremation of common soldiers (Garland 1984).…”

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The Ghost of Clytemnestra in the Eumenides: Ethical Claims Beyond Human Limits

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The Ghost of Clytemnestra is the first afterlife figure in extant Greek literature to call for vengeance instead of ritual burial. She goads the Erinyes to kill Orestes in order to rectify the wrongs she has suffered. Yet the living Clytemnestra has already proven manipulative, politically usurping, and murderous; her Ghost attacks her own son. Further, the Ghost's lack of substance (as eido\ lon, psyche\ , or onar) distances her from the living world. On what ethical grounds, then, does the Ghost base her claims? How can a character so far beyond the boundaries of societal norms demand serious ethical consideration? I. INTRODUCTION: CLYTEMNESTRA'S REAPPEARANCE AND ETHICAL APPEALS At the end of the Choephoroi Orestes kills his mother, Clytemnestra, and displays her corpse to humans, gods, and the theatrical audience as proof of his just vengeance (Ch. 973-1006). In an eerie reversal at the start of the Eumenides, Clytemnestra reappears onstage, bearing the wounds of her murder, to demand vengeance against Orestes. Like the living queen, the Ghost of Clytemnestra marshals rhetoric to effect action in the world, rousing the sleeping Erinyes as her proxies by reciting a multitude of wrongs concerning her dishonor and suffering (Eu. 94-139). 1 The Ghost

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Geras Thanonton: An Investigation Into the Claims of the Homeric Dead

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