CLASS221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lucretius, Argonautica, Katabasis
20 Oct 2017
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(lucius) apuleius: not born in rome, all share money, family matters, politically active = his job , lead city/province, several priesthoods some preliminaries. Lucius = psyche = same story = paralells. Lucius human gets turned into a donkey: gets turned back into human, psyche = human = rescued by god. Love is destructive , love = to get married. Stop doing what youre supposed to do and steer you on wrong path. Lu(cid:272)ius" trials & tri(cid:271)ulatio(cid:374)s; (cid:272)aused (cid:271)(cid:455) his (cid:272)uriosit(cid:455); redee(cid:373)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) isis. Lucius is involved with photis (slave of a witch) Lucius drinks potion thinking he"ll be a bird, but is a donkey. Gets kidnapped for a year as a donkey. Until gets rescued by a god in the end and turned abck into human being. Embedded story(cupid and psyche): charite has been abducted (like lucius) gods. Psyche does something stupid, allows curiosity to take over her, then rescued by god.
