Sky & Thunder
Zeus
Jocasta: "Your father's death is a bright light"
Metaphor
“I feel great shame in trampling on my household, wrecking its wealth, these weavings silver bought us.”
Agamemnon
An act of defiance towards the gods
The purple carpet
An actor/performer
Thespian
The hunt, the wilderness, and the wild animals
Artemis
Tiresias: "Blind instead of seeing, beggar instead of rich, he'll make his way to a foreign land, feeling the ground with a stick."
Foreshadowing
“Quiet! Who’s shouting? What’s this deadly wound?”
Chorus
This object represents helplessness
A net
Extreme possession of pride and arrogance in a given individual
Hubris
The grape harvest, wine & intoxication
Dionysus
Chorus: "All seeing Time has found you out against your will"
Personification
“I tended flocks for almost all my life"
Shepherd
Seeing the truth and/or recognizing faith
Eyes/sight/blindness
A dangerous aura representing consequence that plagues a place or people.
Miasma
The sun, logic & reason
Apollo
Chorus: "No longer will I go in reverence to the untouchable navel of earth, or to the temple at Abai, or to Olympia"
Allusion
“In that case, you can call yourself acquitted! Listen to me and know no mortal man has any share in arts of prophecy.”
Jocasta
Constraint and confinement since birth
Feet/ankles
Embodiments of vengeance relentlessly pursuing their target
Erinyes/Furies
(Titan) Fire & supreme trickery
Prometheus
Tiresias, the blind seer
Irony
“These words will father pain to make you sob."
Aegisthus
When different decisions are possible to make
Crossroads
The achievement of understanding from experience and suffering
Pathei mathos