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Lamia Flashcards

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Hermes’ passion (anticipatory): ‘ever-smitten’, ‘bent on amorous theft’, ‘a celestial
heat/Burnt from his winged heels to either ear’

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Agency: overwhelming passion and suffering, hubris, tragic flaws/errors of judgement

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‘Thou shalt behold her, Hermes, thou alone/If thou wilt, as thou swearest, grant my
boon!’

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‘I love a youth of Corinth – O the bliss!/Give me my woman’s form, and place me
where he is’

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‘Her elfin blood in madness ran,/Her moth foamed’; ‘Her eyes in torture fix’d, and
anguish drear’

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‘She writh’d about, convulsed with scarlet pain’

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‘And in the air, her new voice luting soft,/Cried ‘Lycius! Gentle Lycius!’

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‘And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,/She saw the young Corinthian
Lycius/Charioting foremost in the envious race…And fell into a swooning love of
him’

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Agency: overwhelming passion and suffering, hubris, tragic flaws/errors of judgement

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‘Jove heard his [Lycius’] and better’d his desire;/For by some freakful chance he
made retire from his companions, and set forth to walk’

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‘His phantasy was lost, where reason fades’

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‘For so delicious were the words she sung,/It seem’d he had lov’d them a whole
summer long’

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‘He, sick to lose/The amorous promise of her lone complain,/Swoon’d, murmuring
of love, and pale with pain’

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‘The cruel lady…Put her lips to his, and gave afresh/The life she had so tangled in her
mesh’

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‘Then from amaze into delight he fell/To hear her whisper woman’s lore so well’

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‘Thus getle Lamia judg’s and judg’d aright,/That Lycius could not love in half a
fright,/So threw the goddess off and won his heart/More pleasantly by playing
woman’s part’

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‘When from this wreathed tomb shall I awake!/When move in a sweet body fit for
life,/And love and pleasure, and the ruddy strife/Of hearts and lips’

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‘She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue’

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‘Some demon’s mistress or the demon’s self’

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‘Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!/She had a woman’s mouth with all its
pearls complete’

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‘Real are the dreams of gods, and smoothly pass/Their pleasures in a long immortal
dream’

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‘Into the green-recessed woods they flew;/Nor grew pale, as mortal lovers do’

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20
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‘Ah, happy Lycius! – for she was a maid!/More beautiful that ever twisted braid’

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‘A virgin purest lipp’d, yet in the lore/Of love deep learned to the red heart’s core’

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‘Why this fair creature chose so fairily/By the wayside to linger, we shall see’

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‘And sometimes into cities would she send/Her dream’

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‘And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,/She saw the young Corinthian
Lycius/Charioting foremost in the envious race…And fell into a swooning love of
him’

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Inevitability/warnings – reality and illusion/mortality and immortality/entrapment/reason vs. emotion and imagination

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‘Jove heard his [Lycius’] and better’d his desire;/For by some freakful chance he
made retire from his companions, and set forth to walk’

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Inevitability/warnings – reality and illusion/mortality and immortality/entrapment/reason vs. emotion and imagination

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‘His phantasy was lost, where reason fades’

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‘She stood: he pass’d, shut up in mysteries,/His mind wrapped like his mantle’

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