CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Iliad, Cupid, Euripides
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Cla204 lecture 19: metamorphoses raises question: how divine human beings actually are - how do they share divinity and how human the gods are. What it means if we attribute some divine part to human beings: emperors are deified (augustus and caesar, how do we judge divine actions. Do we judge them in terms we apply to human beings. Do we judge an emperor in such terms: the various depictions in the course (met) of rapes and things like this, the tale of apollo and daphne. He was obsessed with her - describes all her body parts. She runs away from him but his boner was too strong and he chased after her (like hunting prey). She calls help to the river (her dad) for him to change her so she"s no longer beautiful. She turns into a tree: but apollo still loved her. On the trunk he placed his hand, and felt her heart beating within.
