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Christopher Marlowe Dido, Queen of Carthage and Sodomy - Coggle Diagram
Christopher Marlowe Dido, Queen of Carthage and Sodomy
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
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1.1 there is discovered JUPITER dandling GANYMEDE upon his knee: it makes Ganymede like a child (see "dandling" in ORD); makes Ganymede seem frail or fragile ; maybe makes him seem like a baby?, this is an opening visualization of the power dynamic between older and young! (Stage pictures visualize power) . Greek mythology isn't great for babies
i mean, we open in a male-male intimate space
it also subordinates women's labor (homosocial relationships as supporting patriarchy!) reduces women to tempress
Venus' crisis is that his relationship with Ganymede is distracting him from organizing/ordering the status quo on earth. You're not doing your job (i.e. not sorting out the homosocial orderings)
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the tempestuous nature of the gods (fickle, arbitrary, etc)
Marlowe's framework of gods bickering is asking us to think about the larger stakes of fate and control
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