CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Heroides
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Myth as a didactic thing to teach people how to live- cultural values. Aesthetic pleasure myth can give when the audience is aware of interaction with source text. Reception- looking at how an artist engages with the work of his predecessors in his own work. Reception built in to how we have to view mythology. Modern receptions of ancient myth can give you insight to the original author"s thought"s. Leda and the swan, common painting in more modern times. But he is interested the female perspective still seen in metamorphoses. Ovid wrote letters of women to their lovers who have wronged them. Represents an engagement with classical myth that is not white european need to think of all of the world"s reception. Orpheus b/c of what happened to his wife was related to the cult religion like demeter. A lot of bronze statues have been lost. The boy has stereotypical african features but his hair is greek.
