CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Power Law, Aeschylus, Oceanid
3 Dec 2014
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Gods and mortal: prometheus and divine justice september 16th. Thy godlike crime was to be kind, to render with thy precepts less the sun of human wretchedness, and strengthen man with his . Trickster god: sacrifice to gods, fire to humans. Moral: you can"t trick zeus! : can"t trick zeus, he"ll get you, punish prometheus in the end. Trilogy (but only the first part is found, 2 and 3 are lost: prometheus bound had two sequel fragments. Aeschylus" later concerns: individual will vs. divine fate, nature of zeus. Scythia beginning of the world; olympian powers were new. In medias res in the middle of business: time of transition, from one regime to another. Greek myth usually begins in greece (cities), but this play is far away. Time of transition titans fall olympians rise, time were conflict occurs, but rarely in aeschylus" play: little action, more of a talking play, not action.
