HUM-8 Lecture 25: Hum-8 - Day 25
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In antigone there is a famous ode called ode to man this was risky because odes were usually for gods. Many are the wonders and terrors, and nothing more wonderful and terrible than man. This creature crosses the white sea with the stormy south wind, forward through the swell that crashes about him (uses ships). And earth, oldest of the gods, indestructible, inexhaustible, he wears down as his ploughs move back and forth year after year, turning the soil with the breed of horses. He snares the tribe of light-witted birds, the nations of wild beasts, the salt life of the sea, takes them in his net-woven meshes, man the intelligent (nature to overcome technology). He masters by technique [=technology] the mountain-roaming beast that beds in the wilderness, he puts under the yoke the neck of the shaggy-maned horse and the tireless mountain bull. From death alone he will not procure escape. But from desperate disease he has contrived release.
