ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Erymanthian Boar, Stymphalian Birds, Cretan Bull
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Ten/ twelve labors: the peloponnesian labors. Abduction of cerberus (fetch: hercules as a man of great might but small wit. Ovid(cid:495)s (ercules: hercules as a performer of labors (cid:498)my brawn is better than my tongue. Contrast with the gods(cid:495) distress (cid:523)(cid:884)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:524: hercules as a stoic sufferer (294, 297) 480-406 b. c. : one of the 3 great athenian tragedians, won the tragedy competition at the city dionysia 4 times during his lifetime +1 posthumous award. Heracles: known for realistic depiction of characters, centers on (eracles(cid:495)s most ignominious deed, rearranges sequence of events in (eracles(cid:495)s history. Labours precede the murders of megara and the children. Much darker imagining because chance at redemption: magnifies the characters of amphitryon and theseus is gone. Contrast between theseus(cid:495)s and (eracles(cid:495)s views of the gods (cid:498)all men are flawed,/ and so the gods (cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:885)(cid:883)(cid:886)-) (cid:498))f god is truly god, he is perfect,/ lacking nothing. (cid:499)
