CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Boeotia, Chryses, Chryseis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: Efharis Kostala

Document Summary

Mythos: a part of speech/a strong statement, enhances persuasion/story. Example: daughter of chryses given to agamemnon (chryseis: tries to ransom for her, was dismissed (strong mythos, agamemnon offended apollo by offending his priest. Example: book 6, glaukos, grandfather was bellerophan who killed chimera and tamed pegasus: mythos of the telling of a heroic past. Logos: true story, truthful account using reason: mythos: false story with some connection to reality. Myth: traditional story about the divine and heroic with importance in the community: page 18. Allegory: hidden meaning (zeus -> zein -> zoe -> life giving) Narkissos (narcissus) and echo: narkissos born in boetia, son of the nymth liriope and river god cephissus, born a beautiful baby. Thespians (700) fought alongside the spartans, worshiped eros (divine love/attraction) View of pausanias: narkissos say his deceased twin sister that he loved very much, rather than himself, possibly the reflection of a scrying ritual.