CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Franchthi Cave, Timoleon, Homeric Question

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

Document Summary

They had mountains, valleys and their communities were isolated. Earliest known archaeological landscape known to have greeks inhabits it. The bronze age divided the greek: european explorers looked for bronze to find if what homers books and homers tales were true. 750 bc did not have writing so they would tell stories: zeus reflected the behaviour of greek men. He had a great lust for women: he had numerous affairs with women from earth, he seduced and abducted princesses europa which was a normal behaviour for men in a patriarchal society. He turns into a white bull and takes her away to the island of crete: greek gods frequently meddles into humans lives and interacted with them contrary to christian gods, europa became the first queen of crete. That was normal: greeks would have hermes outsides of their houses that would ward off strangers and that had a scripture on it.