CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Triptolemus, Ancient Greece, Astarte
27 May 2018
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Important info for midterm:
- No idter Q o hooseualit i Greek th ad i aiet Greek soiet, 600 – 300
BC
- Do all readings, including may 10th for midterm
- Part 1: short answer
- Part 2: long answer
- No multiple choice
- Lots of choice for questions to answer ore tha tie the uer of Q’s
- Some Gods overlap in what they specialize in
- Make a timeline of Gods
- If you misspell a Greek Gods name wrong, you get 1 mark off per question/per different
name
Cot’d fro Leture 3
Demeter (goddess)
- Pg. 72 – 73
- Grain = wheat and barley
- A hero
- Triptolemos
- Countryside
- Adjectival form of Demetrios, Demetri
- Myth
o 600 BC
o the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (see pg. 72 – 73)
- daughter is Persephone
o teenager, 16 – 18 years old
- Hades rises up out of the earth (and grabs Persephone) and brings her back to the
underworld
- Demeter is disguised as an old lady in Eleusis
- Queen comes out to try to comfort her
- Maid or babysits for her?
- Her temple will now be at Eleusis
- Persephone
o Half the tie she’s a aide, liig as a girl
o Half the tie she’s liig as a oa
Lecture 4
Egyptian Tomb photo
- Building a boat
- Trading vessels from Lebanon (used to be called Venetia?)
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- Not Indo-European
- Talked a lot about in the Hebrew bible as trade partners
- Landed at a court of Egypt
- Accurate representation
- Venetia’s are i red roes iggest persos
- Egyptians are the ones who are smaller, they come to help
- Phoinikes (the red people)
- Important luxury export – textiles (w Venetian red dye – and purple)
- Purple is the colour of kings – also the Pope
- Travelled the sea for the sake of trade
- Gaddir
- 900 BC – Greeks came in contact w Venetians
- Venetians worshipped Ishtar (Astarte)
o Astarte – sexual, high achieving, nutritive
o Had a human boyfriend named Thammuz
- Cyprus
Aphrodite (pg. 69) – foa-or
- Greeks called the planet Venus, Aphrodite
- Adonis
- The Cypriot
- Cyprus
- Hand mirror – bronze or copper
- 900 BC
- Female gender sign is commonly associated w hand mirror, and Venus
- Male gender sign is commonly associated with the shield and spear
Hesiod Theogony - 700 BC?
- “he’s older tha )eus
- Older generation of divine beings
Ouranos – means heaven – gets cut by Kronos
- Kronos is his son - gets to keep his genitals
The Greek Underworld and the Afterlife – pg. 206 – 213, 52, 30, 72 – 73, 89 – 90, 158 – 159
- 750 BC Odyssey Bk 2
- ask the advice of a dead man Tericious to ask Adeisicious how to get home
- Greek hell is not the same as Christian hell
o Greek hell is run by the Gods, Hades and Persephone (husband and wife)
o Hades is not evil, not satan, he gets the underworld
o Hades – meaning the unseen one
o While Poseidon gets the sea
o Satan figures in Greek Myth are early antagonists of Zeus, dragon Typhon, and
Giants
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