CLA 1101 Lecture 7: Lecture 7

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Outline 7: the heroic age, religion and the gods. Helle (hellespont girl who feel off the ram) Theta is for theseus, hero of athens. Ancient greeks worshiped their heroes (cid:494)star(cid:495) of a war, quest/search, labour. They had to be dead to be worshipped. Chthonic deities = dead and are down in the underworld. Libation = worship by pouring a libation. Motif: the triumph or civilized and uncivilized: minotaur, antiope, amazonomachy (c/f p. 152) Caused the war (amazonomachy = war with the amazon) Amazon were celibate female warroiors who lived at the endge of greek. They had mating rituals and male babies were killed or out casted. He killed the lion then skinned it. He became a god after performing the 12 labors. 2nd killing the lernian hydra: chopping of the heads and cauterizing the stumps so they wont grow back, king of tiryns, cerberus (c/f p. 153) He was particularly popular in the peloponnese.

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