Ovid and the Ovidian Milton
Oct 17, 2010•1 hr 19 min
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Episode description
First class on Ovid -- Milton's versions of Ovidian creation (from Chaos and pure matter, not ab nihilo) and of Proserpine gathering flowers. Ovid's mythic consistency compared to Plato's theory of the consistency or coherence of truth. Brief account of the parable of the cave in the Republic,
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