CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hippolytus (Play), Cup-Bearer, Actaeon
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Terms: mythological rape, io/cow, argos/peacock, hermes/europa, zeus/bull, crete, rite of passage ceremony, separation, liminal, reintegration, homeric hymn to apollo, delos, eileithyia, hera, telphousa, delphi, pytho, omphalos, pythian priestess. Mediation: how you form a channel of communication between two different worlds (ex. prophecy) Pythian priestess (at apollo"s temple) for female version of pytho. Apollo entered her body during prophetic moments. Croesus wants to fight mightiest empire (persian empire) and asks oracle what he should od. Oracle says if he attacks the persian empire, a mighty empire will fall. Croesus is defeated and persian king wants him to burn him alive but he releases croesus after he apologizes about his misinterpretation of the oracle and he becomes his advisor. How did oracles work: didn"t really tell the future; lies, good predictions, access to knowledge, sanctioned activity, rubber stamp; when pressed, purposefully ambiguous. Wrote down questions on lead tablets and buried them in sanctuary.
