CLST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hemera, Duat, Barque
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Iliad = gods are always the aition of events (major and minor) Iliad"s environment is an entirely causal closed world with the gods controlling everything and thus without free will. Achilles makes the prudential choice to agree with athena. Odyssey = humans make and are responsible for their choices. Early greek science begins here: gods subsequently naturalized, made predictable and regular. E. g. elements or principles of attraction and rejection; gods are demorphicised into elements rather than humans; gods are natural elements and forces that work on them anthropromorphic. Backwards that science led to stories as explanations for causes, basics trends human and non human causes outside of our control, already there and whether we have free will or things are determined is argued. Raising your arm < civil democracy (voting) your arm < civil democracy (voting) That was lots of oxytocin in her body ---> lots of aphrodite in her. Fundamental force of attraction (e. g. oxytocin, gravity, etc. )
