Athens Sanctuary

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A contemporary mediation of the Eumenides by Aeschylus and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles. Athens Sanctuary aims to be readily accessible and yet subversively to hook the viewer into a more complex reflection on the relevance of these tragedies, allowing for the emergence of a more mediated understanding of our time. Both The Eumenides and Oedipus at Colonus have to do with a non-citizen being received into the polis of Athens: in the case of Orestes, in order to find justice, and, in the case of Oedipus, in order to end years of exile and exclusion. In the first play Orestes comes to Athens fleeing the Furies who seek vengeance for the matricide he has committed and is provided a jury trial. In Oedipus at Colonus, the blind figure of Oedipus who has been guided to Athens by his daughter Antigone, after years of wandering in exile for parricide and incest, is offered sanctuary.

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