CLA402H1 Lecture Notes - Pittacus Of Mytilene, Tyrant, Hetaira
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11: ship as a persons resolve, sea is the political spirit of the time, ship is the city and the state. A famous metaphor: ship of state metaphor : singing in the symposium, encouraging his companions, lyric poets appropriate epic diction, like that of homer. We should imagine the audience being aware of these images and expressions, and being able to see the homeric appropriation: fr. 332: lamenting the state of the ship, drink away his sorrows, famous, lets get drunk cause tyrant is dead, immortalized by roman poet horace who writes in the 1st cent b. c. The downfall of cleo and antony: uses alcaeus to bring in his motto of death and defeat of cleo, a force similar to the tyrant. 335: invoking in vino veritas, best of remedies is to get drunk, try and be authoritative, his verse might be plagiarized, drinking wine together and making political decision.
