CLASSICS 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Floruit, Long Shot, Aeschylus
21 Jul 2018
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2001: tech, violence, and human nature: barly surviving ancestor, human origins: "no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all continued fear, and. Long shot of the sunsets gives info on static mode of existence and state of nature danger of violent death: and the life of man, solidarity, poor, nasty brutish and short" Made in our own image: hal: made in the image of humankind, the way dave put down how was interesting. Like hal like a kid: humanity"s genius for violence. Hesiod and greek epic: archaic period: c 750bce- 480 bce. Aeschylus and greek tragedy: classical period: 480 bce-323 bce. The period which we see the floruit of greek intellectual culture (tragedy, comedy, historiography, medicine, philosophy). Athens: prometheus bound: mid to mid-to-late 400s bce, athenian, fought in the persian wars at the battle of salamis, 480 bce, oldest of the 3 canonical athenian tragedians (sophocles, euripides)
