ENG 201 Lecture 3: Chapter 3 | MLS

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 201
• Professor: Mary Economou Green

Document Summary

The names that follow are the most important and are constantly repeating within the text: Hesiod was an epic poet in the same way homer was; he wrote two important texts around 700 bc or so. Almost a contemporary version of homer; he follows in that tradition. There were other epic poets writing in this time, but only fragments have been found, a few complete works. Works and days is the rst text important text with regards to the anthropological, sociological and agricultural context of that time; mythic snippets are included in that. Theogony the second text talks about the creation of the world, the origin of the gods and of humans. Creation and origin of all of the gods. Presenting a map of the world from the textbook at that time; the concept that there was oceanus the ocean all around us; crete; minoan civilization in the middle of the world;