GRST 309 Lecture 1: GRST 309 Notes

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 309
• Professor: Reyes Bertolin Cebrian

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Anatolia = modern-day turkey these languages have now disappeared: indic languages. Vedic, sanskrit (about 4th century bc-11th century ad) language of india tends to be very conservative because it"s connected to religion change word, change relationship with the gods. Indo-iranian still related even though written with. East (old prussian (gone)), gothic (oldest testimony): balto-slavic. Baltic lithuanian major language very late attested. Slavic czechoslovakian, etc: albanian also language all by itself again complicated, celtic languages first testimony around 2nd century bc. Celtic (spoken all over, slowly pushed out), welsh, Macedonian different language or dialect of greek. George dum zil used durkheim"s ideas to try to put order in the myths: structuralist. 5-6: origin of the scythians: plough and yoke wealth/fertility function, sword warrior function, flask maybe healing, mindly things. 13-15: three orders of people druids and warriors (people who matter), and the commonality, druids do all things sacred, decide rewards and punishments, judicial, tacitus annals 14.