"But where does the myth of Oedipus begin? How many generations does it include?"
"The fate of a mythic hero was part of the fate of a 'house.'" / "Antigone meets death as a hero, not as a victim. (...) But the woman who is hero is not allowed to be wife and mother." / The woman who is wife and mother can be a hero only if she dies. (...) Alive and betrayed, she is no longer a hero." / "...a woman who kills yet (...) does not die. Put aside as a wife, Medea refuses to be a victim. She is not a hero, but she takes revenge..."
"In the household of a king, vengeance is a dynastic act."
some questions & possible answers from "The Oedipus Complex, Antigone, and Electra: The Woman as Hero and Victim," Dorothy Willner.


















