CLA 2323 Lecture 1: Lectures 1 & 2
22 Sep 2018
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Questions we will try to answer: the contextual approach example in lecture: 3 of the gods more friendly toward humans. Athena wisdom, goddess of technology (shipbuilding, weaving), gave the gift of an olive tree to athens) These all overlap in the context of resources specifically agricultural resources. Greece famous for their wine, for exporting olive oil, barley (demeter) So, must take all gods in context to who they are to the ancient greeks. Consider in relation to greek religion: the land of greece, greece in the bronze age: 2100 1200 b. c. These were the few meat animals the greeks ate: cattle, pigs, sheep (more in recording, these animals were sacrificed, did not sacrifice wild animals, only domestic, pg. 69 has gods and their respective attributes: roped in most islands in that peninsula, agean sea. Lecture 2: greece in prehistory: athena-olives, demeter-barley, wheat, dionysus-grapes, wine. Greeks started trading with egypt, etc. (more advanced civilizations)
