CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metatheatre, Pentheus, The Possession
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A lot about ambiguity, and double (male female, mortal, god etc. ) Because of being teased by her sisters, she asks him to come in her divine form. So he comes as a lightning bold and burns her to the ground. So zeus takes him into his hip. Hera hates him and kills him again while he is the second womb (whose????: zeus has to resurrect him. Gods aren"t supposed too die, but he does. Every time you drink this, you pour out a little on the table to honour him. Wine is one of his great gifts to humanity. It brings a little bit of divinity to humanity. Wine helps us forget count no man happy till he is dead , that we are human, that we have limits (being drunk): wine is a medicine for the human condition. Human beings are not supposed to be gods.
