CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cunt, Clytemnestra, Deioneus
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Lecture 2: sept 12, 2017: pandora, prometheus, greek myths often have different versions, many variations of the myth. Zeus knows but picks the beautiful package anyway and then continues to punish prometheus. He put life in her and the grey eyed goddess athe(cid:374)a put (cid:272)lothi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) her. Starts after the war has already been going on for 9 years. Lots of greeks the(cid:374) die a(cid:374)d eventually achilles rejoins the fight: ho(cid:373)er does(cid:374)(cid:859)t start fro(cid:373) the (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. pi(cid:272)ks a poi(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d then puts i(cid:374) all ki(cid:374)ds, narrative technique admired in antiquity. Homer brilliant because he does(cid:374)(cid:859)t start ab ovo. So he was praised in particular for just focusing on that dramatic part of the war: hele(cid:374)(cid:859)s fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) tree slide, aeolus has perieres and deion. Perieres has tyndareus who married leda who sleeps with zeus: scene where trojans are looking down from the wall, called; teichoskopia, teicho = wall, skop = look it, functions to introduce the main characters in the war.
