CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Odysseus, Spring Harvest, Aeschylus
5 Oct 2015
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May 19, 2015: archaic age: sources such as hesiod and homer. So semele tests zeus and zeus wants to convince her, so semele tells. Reason dionysos is called dimator (twice-born born from semele and. Zeus: hera went after dionysos and his foster-parents and zeus protects him by turning him into a baby goat. Becomes associated with goats and goats are then sacrificed to him: dionysos is a bender of the rules of nature and social norms. As a child he was a boy but raised as a girl. He was turned into an animal and raised by nymphs, or silenos, the oldest satyr, in other versions. Greek satyrs were like horse-men (not centaurs) Borrow from myths, such as the trojan war, that were lost. Valuable sources of information: by the end of the tragedy, the main character suffers a cruel fate that they didn"t deserve (they weren"t morally responsible for the things that happened to them)
