CLASS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Wedding Night, Hipponax, Amorgos
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Lecture 6: the iambic, demeter, and ritual laughter. Sexually explicit verses known in many regions of greece. Characteristics: always contains explicit references to sexuality, aggressive, misogynistic. By his vicious mockery caused the suicide of his adversary lycambes and his daughters. Caused the suicide of bupalus, who refused to give him his daughter. "take my cloak, i"ll hit bupalus in the eye! For i have two right hands and i don"t miss with my punched" "from the beginning, the gods made women different. One type is from a pig -- a hairy sow. Her house is like a rolling heap of filth; and she herself, unbathed in unwashed clothes, reposes on the shit-pile, growing fat" Laurie o"higgins in ch 3 of women and humor in classical greece makes this argument. Ritual joking (connected to the iambe joking) - involving sexual humor. A female figure in the hymn to demeter. She is said to have cheered up demeter by joking.
