CMRS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hetaira, Komos, Epikleros
5 May 2016
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Epikleros = daughter whose father dies but doesn"t have a son. In comedy you always present a world that is topsy-turvy ex. Women is in charge husband is below her. Greedy uncle if i marry her ill get rich. Prostitute ends up being not all that different from the slave. How do we get this wedding without the illegitimate baby coming up . Glorious grand light in athens joke all you gotta do is stand up and praise their light and then you can make them do anything. Gamete hetaera concubine given in marriage pawn off the bastard" child on her husband. Aut vs. aut = made of similar stuff would mean that she slept around. Nothos is really just made up by humans it has no true meaning. Melanippe the wise making an elaborate speech about birth. I may be just a woman, but that doesn"t mean i don"t know things .
