CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dactylic Hexameter, Catullus, Pentheus
22 Jan 2017
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Agave with her trophy- she is boasting about her kill, thinks it is a calf; chorus gets details from her about what happened. Cadmus enters- had to (cid:272)olle(cid:272)t the pie(cid:272)es of pe(cid:374)theus" (cid:271)ody, gently gets agave to break the spell of di. Her realization- she has killed pen, di brought this suffering bc of the disbelief of all the thebans (the royal family is the leader of thebes) Punishment for the family- agave must live in exile as a prisoner, punishment for disbelief and for killing pen. The whole royal family (even cadmus and harmonia, who will be turned into snakes and lead barbarians against greece) must leave bc the killing of pen has brought another pollution. Choral tag of the end- the ways of the gods are mysterious. What does it mean to put on a play and to watch it- ex. Move from greece to rome- romans knew greek literature well.
