CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Dangerous Alliance, Euripides, Dazed
26 Jan 2017
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Colchis is different than greece: uncertainty (contrast with iliad, willow trees with corpses not in greece (different customs, hospitality, fountains superfluous: far fetched, obscure mythology: trivial detail to show off knowledge. Eros(cid:495) effect in immediate on medea (repeated) Aeetes mistrusts the strangers: families, stories weave together, physical symptoms: love is not sweet, hard, cruel, endurance test, after his power quest for fleece a mask, quest: hero needs to overcome obstacle. Jason must: crucial character for quest story. Aeetes, the opposition to jason(cid:495)s quest: throw dragon(cid:495)s teeth into the field, yoke the bronze, fire-breathing bulls, plow a field, kill the armed men that grow. Jason needs help; he is a different kind of hero: putting faith from aphrodite, help from unconventional sources, sense of duty (not kleos, high, elaborate style of hellenistic poetry, difficult similes. Medea prepares to meet jason: hera(cid:495)s dressing scene in iliad: seduction, medea and her attendants. Minotaur: foreshadowing: almost same as nausicaa.
