CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ferula Communis, Hypereides, Asclepius

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

Document Summary

Hesiod on prometheus, zeus, and the first woman. The rst woman on earth = pandora: (i. e. the giver of all or endowed with everything, gods give her more gifts so second ting is more accurate. Story told twice, one in each poem, (*textbook pg 89*) Starts between a relationship with gods and humans. The rst animal sacri ce to gods is made by humans. Prometheus, for reasons unknown, likes humans so he divides the sacri ce and. Treats zeus with a package of bones, the other package is smaller but is full of the. Zeus gets the bones and is fooled = he"s super cheesed. Prometheus = forethought: he loves humans, but zeus is still cheesed bc of what he did so he"s a dick to us. Sacri ce: roasting meat and pouring wine on the alter: also involves a number of butchering and cooking operations. Hercules frees him and kills the eagle: prometheus is now safe and free!