FRONT MATTER:
- Painful initiation rites: Know yours.
- Have a question ready for the October 1st review.
- Incoming quiz, October 3rd.
IMPORTANT TERMS/INTERESTING TIDBITS:
The Story of Nessus and Heracles' Death
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| 'Diana and Actaeon' (1603-1606) by Giuseppe Cesari |
Read more about Nessus' villainy here.
The Story of Actaeon
And his punishment for looking at Artemis as she bathed.
A succinct version of the story here.
The Story of Pentheus
And what happened when he insisted upon seeing the the Maenads' rituals.
Read more here.
"The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre —
To be redeemed from fire by fire. (IV)
Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire..."
—from 'Little Gidding' by T.S. Eliot.
ET CETERA:
"Ring around the rosy? Pocket full of posy? And you're singing about this in the third grade? My god."
"What would happen if old people didn't die? Don't old people sort of deserve to die?"
"(These are stories of) what happens to people when they commit the hubris of being born."
"You're going to get it in the end.
What does that mean? It might mean we're not going to make it out alive.
Or...
You're going to get it. You're going to understand."
