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Episode CXII - The Book of Love

Emperors of Rome

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How to Communicate Tough Concepts

Ovid uses myth to communicate tough concepts. He'll talk about the rape of the sabine woman whill he'll bring up greek myth than. Some of it must be said, and we haven't really touched on this, some of this material is difficult. What is interesting, i think, is that in the past, say, until e 19 eighties, ovid's episodes involving rape have often been treated as if they were episodes of seduction,. I so persuasion here. And his language could not be more explicit in legal terms than the language he uses in this story of achilles and diodemea.

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