CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Erebus, Preface, Theogony
22 Sep 2016
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For seminars this week (sept 19 - 23), think about the different causes of creation in biblical and greek cosmology. Open for submissions as of noon oct 3rd (due oct 7th). Will cover intro and beginning of greek myths. There will be 5 multiple choice questions. A student of freud (they disagreed on how myth worked) Freud: myths tell you something about the human mind and yourself. Jung: myths help build the human mind indi- vidually and collectively minds are the same) They are the building blocks of individual subconsciousnesses. Myths are based on the structure of the human mind. Bipolar opposites: the basis of how people think vs cooked) Claude levi-strauss (1908 - 2006) (eg. raw. Myths as a guide for the journey through life. They tells us much about the people who create them. Hopes, fears, desires, what it means to be human. Cosmogony: explaining how the universe came to be.
