CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture 1: Myth - Sept9
7 Oct 2015
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Myth helped greeks and romans make sense of their world. Not just for fun stories, history + demonstrates how they thought about their world. Zeus: king of olympians, father of many gods, powerful, subject to human desires. Hera: wife + sister of zeus; queen of olympians not mother to gods; watches zeus, unsuccessfully. Hermes: son of zeus; messenger; patron of merchants, travellers, thieves, escorts souls to the underworld. Apollo: son of zeus (not hera) patron of poetry + music, associated with prophecy (delphi); god of medicine + plague. Artemis: daughter of zeus (not hera) virgin goddess of the hunt, away from men. Athena: daughter of zeus (not hera) virgin goddess of war + wisdom. Ares: son of zeus + hera; god of war. Aphrodite: goddess of love, sexual attraction and desire; an element of danger. Poseidon: brother of zeus, god of the sea. Hephaestus: son of zeus + hera, god of re, metal work, craft, one foot is disabled.
