HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Actaeon, Tiresias, Pentheus
25 Mar 2014
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Final exam: saturday april 19th rexall tennis courts 7-10 p. m. Metamorphoses, book 3: cadmus is ordered to find europa or face exile, cadmus crew is slaughtered by a dragon that is related to mars, cadmus slaughters the dragon. 72-80: pauses the action and intensifies the emotional intensity. Athena orders cadmus to bury the teeth of the dragon as seeds. The soldiers rise up from the teeth and murder each other. Theme of chance: actaeon suffers a cruel fate; he dies in front of the very people he loves. Teiresias: teiresias was both a boy and a girl when he witnessed two serpents making love and chastising them. Jupiter and jove argue jokingly as to which sex enjoys sex more: teiresias says girls, this makes juno mad so she makes him blind. Jupiter, not able to undo this since he cannot override gods" decisions, give him the power to foresee to make up for his blindness.
