CLASSIC 45A Lecture 3: Classics 45A (22300) - Lecture 3 - Creation
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Week 1 lecture 3 creation (ch. 2) Theme of rape: rape comes from a latin word rapio", meaning to seize; to snatch, the act of seizure; connotations of violence. In this, rape comes out from excessive love: there is a sense in which sex is based on love, how one feels it. In excess, causes one to be violent; lose control: not be able to sustain it, think of the right thing, salvation. Creation: historical setting, alternative stories, capture the time before the archaic period, trying to understand in what environment the theogony sprang out of, one of the main texts about the greek gods. In which we worship the gods: spheres of divine activity, where godly work happens, yet: there are big variations in the depictions of greek gods in both art and literature. Iron age: dates 1150-750 bce, center: ascra on the slopes of mt. Helicon: sources: almost nothing survives from the era.
