C C 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Maenad, Euripides, Oeagrus

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: C C 303
• Professor: James Patterson

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Cc 303, dr. james patterson, week 7, lecture #18, 7 october 2016. Existential explanation for why bad things happen to good people, why humans suffer. Hubris doing something that unbalances that universe, whether on purpose or accidentally. E. g. coming home and finding a million dollars you might lose the money, have some other misfortune come to you, or some misfortune to someone related to you or one of your descendants. Nemesis bad things that come and balances the universe. Oeagrus (mortal king) + calliope (one of the muses) Given to him by apollo as a way to seduce one of the other muses and win favor among them. Orpheus e(cid:374)ds up (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g i(cid:374)(cid:272)redi(cid:271)l(cid:455) good at pla(cid:455)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d si(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though he"s (cid:271)etter tha(cid:374) Apollo, his (cid:373)usi(cid:272) is so (cid:271)eautiful, apollo does(cid:374)"t get jealous a(cid:374)d lets hi(cid:373) keep the l(cid:455)re. Music so beautiful, hypnotizes all who hear it.