CLA204H1 Lecture : CLA204H1 Last Lecture
25 Apr 2012
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Definitions, identification (quotes, context, significance), essay or dialogue of mythical characters. Recall: book 11, story of troy is a complex. Learn of how troy was originally founded, and cheated apollo and neptune. Story of thetis and peleus, another story of where peleus hears about a wife who mourns for her dead husband then turns into a bird. Son of priam who was in love with a girl, girl steps on snakes and jumps off. Book 11 - the first love story that leads into the trojan war, is when peleus manages to rape thetis in her normal form (usually able to escape him through shape shifting) Book 14 story ties back to vertumnus, but more a story of courtship and persuasion through non-violence. He is a god and when he finally shows his true form, the girl falls in love with him by first sight. Represents a roman story, it is more civilized.
