CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Odysseus, Minoan Civilization, Nostoi
2 Dec 2012
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Homer is a fictional representative of the trojan war. An educational foundation for a population that didn"t have anything. Homeric values were viewed as core greek values. His poems were considered epic poetry (not romance or comedy; always very serious ex. war) Homer"s poems were only a fraction of the epic cycle. Only ones that are in full form are the iliad and odyssey (most complete form) Cypria (poem) = goes back to the origins of the war. Greeks have an anthropomorphic religion (gods are like us; except gods live forever and are extremely powerful) There was a time when zeus wasn"t the king of heaven. Prometheus tells zeus to avoid a sea goddess named thetis b/c if zeus were to sleep with. Thetis, he would lose his throne to the son. The wedding of thesis and peleus: eris couldn"t come (goddess of strife)
