ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pirithous, Airborne Interception Radar, Aegeus

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1C06
• Professor: Anne Savage

Document Summary

Greek myth: theseus= hero on a quest, quests: Find father: quest for identity, he was lead to believe that poseidon was his father for many years, along the way he encounters, a giant named sinis, wild sow, evil/ wicked innkeeper. Every time he kills an enemy he treats them as they had treated others: eye for an eye , law of symbolic retribution , dante uses this. Kill the minotaur: is a punishment originally but theses sees it as an opportunity for glory and to help his people. To bring back persephone from the underworld as a wife for his friend, Pirithous: thesis is sent to the island of crete as a sacrifice to the minotaur, theseus" success is in part because of the help of aphrodite and eros who made. Ariadne gave theseus a magic ball of yarn that will lead him to the minotaur and that he can follow on his way back.