CLA236H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Trojan War, Aesacus, Elegy
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Any internal narrator: are they avatars for their poetic creator. Representative of this misogynistic and then you have a female force that is resisting this narrative. Narrative interlude before returning to married love and loss. Has object of desire at hand but not able to enjoy it. Hercules" siege of troy, but hercules has already died -- break in strict chronology. New points of origin for the final books of the poem. Trojan war traditionally started with the wedding of peleus and thetis. But ovid instead begins by describing a flashback of how peleus captured thetis. Ceyx and alcyone take center stage; peleus and thetis sent away (elegy instead of epic) A romantic epyllion: deals with elegiac amor rather than epic arma (alcyone"s speech, 11. 420, lover"s complaints) The cave of sleep; her elegiac lament. Reunited for eternity: both turned into sea birds. Cephalus/procris: set against the background of war preparations, offers an interlude of calm.
