CLAS 1P97 Lecture 7: Jason and the Argonauts
23 Feb 2016
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Pay extra attention to pages, 43, 49-97,72-78. Lecture: jason and the argonauts a heroic expedition. There is no "old" or original story of jason of the argonauts, it has been lost and the one we are reading is one that has been edited and changed through time; yet it is a. The essence of this story is that no one has been to the black sea before, and gone through it, so that"s what their journey is. Northern greece thessaly; gulf of pagasae (aeoleis); where jason is from, about as north as a greek could be from. After the flood; the noah greek character is decalion, pyrrha is his wife; basicly the same noahish story; great flood two survived they repopulated. Deucalion + pyrrha hellen (son; ancestor of the hellenes = the greeks) (a bit like. Adam from christianity) - aeolus (hellen"s son; ancestor of aeolic (=northern) Greeks) - cretheus, athamas, salmoneus (all aeolus" sons)
