CLAS 203 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Notes.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 203
• Professor: Margaret Palczynski

Document Summary

Logos: a reasoned account by someone who stands by it, taking responsibility for the truth of what is said. Myth-ology: a reasoned inquiry into the topic of myth. Myths reflect the society that produces them and in turn help determine the nature of that society. The study of myth: compile, compare, understand myth"s significance within culture that produced it, understand the myth"s broader human significance. Historical sketch: (will not ask to relate date to time period but to know events in text and correspond them to dates) Neolithic age (6500-3000 b. c. : farming villages, pottery, domesticating animals, the area that is now greece and that part of mediterranean was inhabited. It was the greatest volcanic eruption and blew out the center of the island. It is too simple to say the minoan fell because of the eruption but can be a factor: between 2100-1900, the first wave of indo-european invaded (migration) the area that is now greece.