CAS EN 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lex Julia, Prohibition In The United States, Machismo
9 Apr 2020
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Like american prohibition: the romans didn"t take it seriously. Attempt to legalize morality and augustus was serious about it! Metamorphoses: ovid"s great work, anti-epic, focus on things changing, all things are in ux: doesn"t really have a structure, just wanders from place to place, no hero. Counter-classical sensibility: resistance to classical values of heroes, gods, self- growth; subversive. Amor is a bit of a rebellion against augustus and virgil but it"s more that he expected. Augustus to laugh it o instead he was exiled: roma (rome) spelled backward is amor (love, not sure exactly why he was exiled but for a poet, that"s the worst punishment! he loses his audience. Carmen et errore: why ovid said he was exiled, meaning the poem and the mistake and the poem is believed to be art of love. Ovid never uses profane language despite being particularly o ensive it"s scary that he"s eloquent about such awful stu !
