CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thrinacia, Scheria, Anasyrma

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Begins at the date of the first olympics, with that came literacy. Neolithic- greeks lived as neolithic, working with stone, focusing on daily survival. Copper and tin (cu sn), mixed to make bronze. Hoped that he found the place of a king minos, who was the son of zeus. Came to earth in the form of a giant bull, and abducted a woman. Came from the east and came too crete, with the woman created a child named minos. Allegory for what really happened (exchanged for the trade of goods and knowledge) Asks pasidon for heath, in exchange for the sacrifice his white bull. Did not sacrifice the bull he was supposed too, he was angry so he decided to punish minos. Minos wife falls in love with the bull he would not sacrifice. She builds a hallow bull so that the bull will love her back. The minator born from the wife and the bull.