ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proserpina, Peer Pressure, Acrisius
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Reading check info (oct. 27th, 2016: check on the course website for reading check instructions: https://mythandlit. files. wordpress. com/2014/08/b30-reading-check-instructions-2016. pdf, remember the births of the heroes (miraculous impregnation) Look over notes from class, questions will come from that information. The rape of persephone cont. from last lecture. We do(cid:374)"t dis(cid:272)uss de(cid:373)ete(cid:396) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause she remains consistent in both versions of the myth (grieving mother. ) In hh2: gives permission to hades (p. 171, the father allows hades to wed his daughter, no intervention with hades until he has exhausted all possibilities of changing. De(cid:373)ete(cid:396)"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:894)p. (cid:1005)75(cid:895: at first, he sends iris to tell demeter that he demands that she come back, then zeus uses peer pressure, all the other gods go to beg her and attempt to bribe her. It is only after demeter refuses all his attempts that he finally approaches the (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t o(cid:374) hades" e(cid:374)d. Differences in gender power relations in the two versions of the myth.
