CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aeacus, Tisiphone, Mock-Heroic
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Some stories go over book division (start at the end of a book, pick it up at the beginning of another) Sisters = internal narrators; each tells tale within a tale. Stay home spinning/weaving like dutiful women (odd that they are inclined to scandalous love affairs - boiling fantasies a bit of bacchus in them) Refuse to respect bacchus -> bad end. 1st sister = large and exotic repertoire (like callimachean poet) but poet does not sympathize with her. Pyramus and thisbe: (unknown before ovid) viewed as unsubtle and sentimental (inadequate narrators compared to poet) Young lovers separated by wall; speak through chink. Roman elegy = girl = behind door; lover can"t gain access to door, camps out outside singing to girl to let him in. Young lovers behave like stock characters in roman comedy/elegy; pathos of suicide undermined by comedy and grotesque simile of pyramus" blood spurting like a pipe.
