Ancient Greek tragedy has gained new significance in the perspective of ethical literary criticism:it is the cultural memory of the ethical revolution that took place in the process of ancient Greeks'transition from ma-triarchal clan society to patriarchal clan society.The mother-child,father-daughter and sibling consanguineous marriage advocated by"supreme goodness"in mythological religion in the period of matriarchal clan society are in-creasingly impossible.The activities such as Orestes killed his mother to revenge his father,Medea dismembered his brother and eloped with Jason,and King Oedipus killed his father and married his mother become an ethical ta-boo.Patriarchal power discourse has increasingly become the mainstream ideology in the barbaric era.Agamemnon sacrificed his eldest daughter Iphigenia to Artemis,Medea killed two biological sons to revenge her husband Jason,Heracles'son Hyllus married his father's little wife Iole,Athena claimed"I am completely my father's child",and Orestes asked"Do I have blood ties with my mother?",all of those show that the sons and daughters have be-come the members of the patrilineal linage and the heirs of their private property.The seriousness of the ancient Greek tragedy is reflected in the ethical revolution in the process of replacing the matriarchy with the patriarchy.
ancient Greek tragedyethical literary criticismethical revolutionpatriarchycultural memory
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