CLST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Croesus, Philogelos, Eva Gabor
27 Oct 2017
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Quack can"t exist for long in a social vacuum inspired and convinced by the moocher, quack will shine his light on someone else. Sucker (koroibos, circumventus) = fool who finds himself unable or unwilling to escape the quack"s attentions. Koroibos = derived from the name of idiot who tried to meaure waves. Archetypal audience is in tragedies, specifically aeschylus" Prometheus bound where prometheus spends time nailed to a rock listening to io, the talking cow. Comedy also provides a good view of the sucker. Dionysus is on his way to the underworld to rescue. Interrupted by frogs who live in the lake. Frogs sing the customary song = brekekekex, koax, koax; over top of d"s song, ruining it and messing up his rythm. Dionysus is stuck in the middle of the lake and has no choice but to listen to their song and he starts to croak. Sucker can try to avoid the quack but it"s usually unsuccessful.
