ENGB30 Lecture : Lecture 5
Document Summary
Newspapers from 1984 (the year his son was born) Bosnia and croatia, issues that pertain to the now. Hermes makes fun of their accents - not pronouncing their hs Yorkshire, england - germany - czech republic - poland - slovak republic - hungary - romania - Ending back in greece, where the story originally started. Rather than an exportation, they take the myth back home, from where it came from. Juxtaposition of the elevated with the low, the ancient with the modern. Their discussions are particularly poetic, but their way in conveying their message is. The irony in people buying these gnomes - the new gods of the new europe - idols, images. We don"t think of them as deities at all, but to hermes that"s all we have. Juxtaposition of what we know of his hometown and what it has become now. Eleusis was a place of initiation to things that were not visible to the human eye.