HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Aeneid
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Pretext was he written the art of love. Women are represented as the animal object of the hunt. Teaches males exactly the wrong attitudes about women. Devaluation of women leads to the claim that men can take anything they want at force. Tell her she"s beautiful and she"ll love you. Ovid tries to seduce us into this criminal mentality. Skill as a poet does not go hand in hand with wisdom or moral value or sense * What art can be truly like in the hands of a decadent person. Augustus wants to return to values - family, moral, etc. Irony - use of a persona (i. e. speaker != poet) Distance between what the poet is saying and what the speaker is saying. Scholar a is taking it too literally and is missing the whole joke. Ovid is ridiculing and mocking the decadent person. Blaming the fact that he can"t girls because he has no money.
