HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paul Manship, Sarpedon, Rhadamanthus
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Brandemburg gate in germany is an example of architecture that signifies greek history, but people may overlook that and it wont impact them. There is an 18 foot long, 8 ton statue of prometheus in the jewel in rockafeller"s crown. It was finished by 1934 by paul manship. Behind it is an inscription with a quotation from aeschylus" prometheus bound: Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire to earth that hath proven to mortals a means to mighty ends. ". People complain that the statue"s garnish-pop glitter unsettles the discourse of classical myth as indissociable from high culture. In tony harrison"s lament, prometheus, (1998), hermes" desire is for the inhabitants of these cities to turn on prometheus and blame him for their suffering, rather than zeus. Rockafeller statue and the statue of prometheus , although two completely opposed political emblems, show how myth works rationally. Classical myth is a process-not a product.
