CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Odysseus, Multiperspectivity, Potamoi
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The question that seems ask persistently how divine are human beings how human are the gods. The creation story: leave in doubt the divine part of human beings. They talk about different view of the gods we find about the different parts of the metamorphoses. Both sides the idea that gods are noble/just, such as as we saw in athena/minerva; while there are also the troubling gods, perpetually engaged in the crimes of heaven. Personification allegory: the personification of human qualities/actions/emotions as divine and as when pushed to certain level can question the divinity. Such personification is not uncommon, they are also in hesiod (fear, terror), but ovid pushes it quite further. Children in theogony are not detailed character whose role are elaborate, has some precedent in homer. The weaving of personification into narrative: iliad 4 & iliad 9. Human action becomes in the description the divinity with physical characteristics.
