CLCV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Theogony, Multiple Choice, Cronus
16 Oct 2017
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Just like the quizzes: done in class, monday after the fall break, multiple choice, possible short answer questions, know major stories, events, and characters from the textbook. Work, toil, and women: why do we have to do work, the gods keep the secret of the means of survival. You could actually do all your yearly work in a day"s time: the fact that we have to do work, it is the gods that are at fault, the sacrifice, the left of fire, pandora, and women. In the sacrifice, prometheus tried to fool zeus into choosing the worst part. Zeus, in anger, concealed fire from mortals: zeus hides fire, he would not give mortals the secret. Importance of fire: cooking, making bricks, pottery, metals, etc. The fact that he is in this story shows the common way that myth is presented: myths lead i(cid:374)to ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396). Na(cid:396)(cid:396)ati(cid:448)es a(cid:271)out (cid:373)(cid:455)th do(cid:374)"t pa(cid:455) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to temporal sequence.
