CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Croesus, Astyages, Mardonius

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

Document Summary

Quiz - friday 27/01/2012 consist of short answers, multiple choice. Mythographers: homer; iliad, odyssey, hesiod; theogony; works and days. Classical historians: arrian, polybius, plutarch: hellenistic historians. Ionia: settled by the people of attica, greek experience great development and scientific discovery, hecatues of miletus wants to write real history, herodotus ca. 484-430 (413) bc takes on hecatues challenge of writing real history. Mythos vs historia: research- questioned athenians and such, g. m. Young athenians boys, devoted to their mothers, worked hard, strong, beautiful, noble one day their mom wanted to go to their religious festival but the mule was sick so couldn"t pull the cart. So their sons strap the cart to them and they pull her to the festival. The mom prays to the gods that they will get the best reward so they die in their sleep. Gold-digging ant???: locals used large ants to mind for gold according to herodotus, no one believed herodotus and thought he was making up.