CLA 2323 Lecture 1: Introduction & Myth Interpretation (May 5, 2015)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: Rajiv Bhola

Document Summary

Ovid is the reason we have a resurgence of greek mythology in the renaissance, homeric hymns about gods attributed to homer, but post-homer. Format of exam = mc, sa, fill-in-the-blanks, and one short essay question: short essay question will be about troy and the iliad comparison and contrast, cumulative, but emphasis on 3rd part of course. ?"s plans: ancient mythology has permeated every aspect of our media, odysseus tied himself to the mast while his sailors put ear wax in their ears. Johann wolfgang von goethe (1749-1832: playwright, dramatist, & poet, iphigenia in tauris. Iphigenia is doctor of agamemnon, the king who started the trojan war. Agamemnon angered artemis who wouldn"t give him wind to sail to. Troy, so artemis made him sacrifice his own daughter to get wind. Theories of myth interpretation: what is a myth, modern definition, 1. Wildly held misbelief, misrepresentation, fictitious, imaginary, not true: 2.