ENG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Euripides, Trojan War, Aeschylus
26 Sep 2015
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Humanity: 5000-6000 bc, become less nomadic beginning to settle. Up to black sea, includes syria, iraq, turkey, egypt, north africa. Idea of consciousness: concept of understanding we"re in cycle of natures, natural order, Cosmic order: begun to understand sun goes up and down, the moon, sun related to plants, growing. Mythographers: say was an age of awakening, enlightening, consider questions about where we came from. Honoring of nature and the sun, ceremonies honouring the seasons: writing: differentiate own world- deformation of higher civilizations. Found out that they used to pay 10% tax for travellers, orphans, taking care of elders. Using symbols- the idea of language came. A permanence to it, transferred between human beings: mathematics: - seeing different patterns, ability to build pyramids, stars/cosmic order: -nature, cycle of seasons, cycle of planets. Different theory of creation of the world. Concept of how human beings were created.
