ACS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Athenian Democracy, Theogony, Minoan Civilization
2 Apr 2017
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Acs 210 - ideas that shape the world. Foundations of greek civilization (2500 - 1000 bce) The epic poems of homer, the iliad, and the odyssey, likely was inspired by this age. Religion and gods were models for societal values. We know of the god and religion from homer and hesiod - theogony, works and days. Honouring gods with prayers, sacrifices, processions, music, dancing. According to hesiod - world started in chaos. Kronos swallows children so they don t revolt against him. Rhea gives birth to zeus, gives kronos a stone. Swallows stone, pukes up all his other children. Split up the earth - every god in charge of something. Olympians are not creators of the universe - third generation that take over control. Anthropomorphized emotions and behaviour (ex. hate, fear, etc. ) Hoi athanatoi (the deathless ones) - gods. Hoi thanatoi (the ones who die) - people. Development of the idea of the polis.
