CLST 203 Lecture 7: CLST 203 Week 4 Lecture 1

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Highlight and parallel larger themes, attitudes, rituals, concepts. Either comes from arabus, use your judgment. Monstrous (cid:494)to wonder at(cid:495) to gaze at with awe. Most greeks lived on islands, were more of maritime peoples than the rome, the sea was important yet dangerous: they are beautiful and majestic and important but also dangerous and terrifying and quick to turn on. I begin to sing about poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord of helicon and wide aegae. The gods allotted you two offices, o shaker of the earth: to be a tamer of horses and a saviour of ships! Hail, poseidon, holder of the earth, dark-haired lord! O blessed one, be kindly in heart and help those who voyage in ships! Zeus (ges the sky, most powerful), poseidon (majestic, life giving, easy to turn and unpredictable, fickle like the sea), hades (grim, unapproachable, mean, gets the underworld.

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