CLAS-C 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homeric Hymns, Thesmophoria, Aeschylus
26 Feb 2018
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Trying to show the way this hymn serves/justifies/explains patriarchal power. Zeus" attempt to give his daughter in marriage to hades without the knowledge of m imposes patriarchal marriage on divinities who have no experience of it. Accepting the marriage- read as a suffering that humans can identify with. Even the critique, which gets subsumed into the system. Female experience within patriarchy is understood as suffering. Death (women were defined by their children, the loss of loved ones is men who have lives outside the familial relationship) Women become an analogy foe the human condition more generally: This also makes them a source of comfort -> demeter= mother earth. 3 days of camping outside of the city. Fasting, sitting on mats close to the ground -> enacts demeter"s mourning of mother and daughter es is more totalizing than for. Fasting, sitting on mats close to the ground -> enacts demeter"s mourning. Unearthing of rotting mixture of piglets and phallus shaped cakes.
