CLAS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hypersexuality
23 Mar 2016
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Try to put yourself in the author"s shoes or as someone who reads these texts (as a student in 2016) *yet even the noion of metamorphosis is ever-changing in the poem: not always a poliical allegory, but always narraive device. >can be read on muliple levels of transformaion. Metamorphoses was published unreined and unedited, so we don"t know what he might have changed if it wasn"t published as is. Possibly interacted with hexameter because he"s atracted to the immortality of the epic meter. >wanted his stories to live on in a diferent context from his elegiac poetry. Ilms relect anxieies and issues of the ime. E. g. comedy born out of a deep depression. Literature represents common themes or popular noions in the culture. What we receive as extreme in our culture is not necessarily what other cultures receive as extreme: it"s a relecion on the culture and era. >hyper-sexuality of clothing and body parts on tv.
