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Posted by Dorie Goldman on May 19, 19102 at 15:53:01:
What's it about? It was meant to be incidental music for a play(Oedipus, by John Dryden & Nathaniel Lee).
Music for a while, shall all your cares beguile.
Wondring how your pains were eased,
Disdaining to be pleased.
Till Alecto free the dead form their eternal bands, till the snakes drop form her head and the whip from out her hand.
Music for a while shall all your cares beguile.
Snakes are indeed hurled from the head of Alecto (one of the furies) as she, bidden by Hera, wife of Zeus, attempts to terrorize the queen of Latium to prevent her from allowing her daughter to marry Aeneas. But what of the whip? And what does any of this have to do with Oedipus?
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