CLAS 110 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Zeus, Hermes, Gall Force
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Stories in which the meaning/content is held in metaphors and symbols. Content: religious, social, political values and meanings that connect the individual to society and the cosmos. Explain the natural world, divine realm, society. To make bearable the tragedy of living. To understand and integrate one"s experience in a border framework. Logoi-- rational" arguments about the earth, cosmos, gods, society, mankind-- relying on logic and straightforward prose. The origins of writing and the transmission of stories. 8000 bce tokens used as markers of quantities of goods. By 3400 bce hollow clay balls (bullae)(the hollow clay balls used to store tokens with depiction of transaction) and tokens (currency) By end of late uruk period (3100 bce) Stylus blunter, used to press wedge shaped lines into the clay. Instead of an ideographic script, like proto-cuneiform, cuneiform uses syllabic script. Cuneiform is a script, not a language. Recovered from numerous tablets from numerous periods and places.
