CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Only Hope, Etiology, Misogyny
3 Dec 2014
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The age of our fathers, worse than the one before, brought forth ourselves, worse than our fathers, who will beget offspring more vicious still. : horace, odes. Greek/ roman perspective things were always better than before. Man created by divine after earth and animals came into being (cp 72-74: does not separate man and woman, we come from the earth, not the sky, which makes us less powerful. Or : created by the supreme god in its image, by prometheus, molded from water and clod. Iron age: time of evil, war, lust, fraud; truth and fidelity departed, all the bad stuff, humans getting worse morally, times are harder for human, lives have gotten harder and humans had gotten weaker, therefore sent a flood. Deucalion to pyrrha: so how should we go about repopulating the earth? : prayer to goddess (titan) themis. Humans are a hardy race, used to toils. Hellen: hellenes (hellas) ancestors of the greek.
