CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Actaeon, Hoopoe, Tyrant
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In bacchi & when ity is about to be killed (metamorphosis: humor & ironic detachment. Ovid met p28(phaethon), apollo putting sun cream on phaethon"s face chance. P55 (actaeon), actaeon wondering & stumbled on diana(artemis) naked: ancient media for writing inscriptions (stone) Papyrus roll: weaving for the disempowered ii: philomela. Pandion, king of athens has 2 daughters: procne and philomela. Marries procne to tereus, king of thrace. Procne sends tereus home to escort philomela to thrace on a visit. Tereus, consumed with illicit passion for philomela, rapes her and cuts out her tongue on the journey home, then leaves her in a cabin and pretends to her family that she"s dead: philomela. Sister of procne, sister-in-law of tereus, aunt of itys. Helps murder itys and serve him to tereus. She, procne, and tereus all become birds (procne -> nightingale, tereus->swallow, tereus -> hoopoe: philomela threatens tereus.
