CLA 2323 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

Demeter: goddess of wheat/barely, beloved in the country side. Inspired popular greek names such as demetria and demetrias, but also demitri and demetrios jumping into the sea from a cliff: greeks lived in italy as well with greek colonies along the coast. Istanbul was originally a greek colony like many other of todays cities like. They likely followed a mother goddess figure according to a clay figure from. 6000b. c of a women figure giving birth with two lions by her side. A similar figurine was found in northern greece from an era before the. A third female figurine was found on the island of crete with a yoga type of pose. William jones who was a british civil servant where he discovered the ancient language of india known as sanskrit: it took 2000 years for the original language to reach greece languages. (2100b. c)