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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 OED); 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 the supporting patriarchy!); reduces women to temptress
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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