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    An opera depicting marvelous ancient Greek gods and godde... — Carmelics
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    An opera depicting marvelous ancient Greek gods and goddesses can be vraisemblable.

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    • 1.Vraisemblance requires that subjects be depicted as existing in the way they can exist.
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    • 2.Gods and goddesses can be depicted as existing in the manner appropriate to gods and goddesses.
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    • 1.Vraisemblance requires that depicted subjects conform to the audience's operative beliefs about what is real or causally possible.
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    • 2.Enlightenment audiences increasingly regarded Olympian gods as mythological fictions rather than genuine causal agents in the world.
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    • 3.A subject widely recognized as fictional cannot ground vraisemblance, since vraisemblance tracks credibility, not mere logical possibility.
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    • 1.Du Bos grounds vraisemblance in historical and cultural specificity, not in abstract metaphysical permissibility.
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    • 2.Greek gods depicted in opera are transposed into a foreign cultural context divorced from the living religious framework that made them credible.
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    • 3.Vraisemblance fails when subjects are removed from the specific social and epistemic conditions that originally warranted belief in them.
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    Since artistic imitations are intended to arouse emotions similar to those aroused by the objects imitated, Du Bos values what he calls vraisemblance (verisimilitude). Painters, for example, must “make a painting consistent with what we know of the customs, habits, architecture, and arms of the people that one intends to represent” (1.30). A work can, however, be vraisemblable without being an imitation of the real world and historical events. A work can be vraisemblable and yet be an example of
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