CMRS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Coryphaeus, Cercyon, Alope

• School: U of S
• Department: Classical Medieval Renaissance
• Course: CMRS 110
• Professor: Porter John

Document Summary

The arbitration, we will find, engages with euripidean tragic themes and forms much more systematically than the. Girl from samos; at the same time it also presents menander"s interest in ethical themes much more directly, as well as the role of character in determining our fortunes. The following excerpts present summaries of the myths of auge and alope which would seem to be based upon the plots of two of euripides" plays, now lost. Compare the various plot elements of these stories with those of. A festival of minerva [athena] was being celebrated in a certain city of arcadia, in the course of which hercules. [heracles] had doings with auge, daughter of aleus and priestess of minerva, while she was leading the choral dances in the nocturnal rites. As evidence of his deed he left her a ring. Pregnant by him, she bore telephus, who got his name from what followed.