CLA 2323 Lecture 1: CLA2323 Lecture 1: Greek Mythology: Introduction
9 Sep 2016
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Greeks acquired literacy through adaptation as a healthy culture. Becoming story tellers orally to written form they quickly captured alphabets. This is why greek myths were well preserved. Greece is between the asia minor and italy. The spine of the country is made up of mountains continuing the south east. Traditionally formed stepping stones in the ocean forms the asia minor. Cities would for for land (city starvation) causing locality and discontinuity disunity. Most of its history is slugging within the country reflected in greek myths. People were citizens of the cities not the country. Rain water fell through aquifers causing lots of droughts in the land. Lime stone in the ground which are soft formed caves with water inside. Caves were associated with demi gods called nymphs. These were places of worship associated with gods. There was a cave thought to be an entrance to hell (had water, dark, walk to the underworld)
