CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Simile, Brindisi, Gaius Maecenas
26 Jan 2017
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14-11-16 lecture 18: also furious, decrying all men (oath breakers and out to get what. Dionysus happens to be at the island and marries ariadne: noisy, boisterous but happy ending for ariadne. Connection of two stories through simile: crowd looking at blanket, starts to disperse like waves in the sea, transition between two narratives while being aware of connection. The fates and their song flowers planted continue to grow, will remind them of this day: talks about people who are present, popular event, chiron, achilles" future tutor brings them flowers. Apollo sides with trojans connection to iliad: trees grew around the house, symbolic, apollo and artemis are only olympians not present. A moralizing closure: gods used to visit the homes of men and visited their temples, presenting idealized versions of this world when gods used to walk among us, intermingling of mortal and the divine.
