CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Serifos, Acrisius, Sea Monster
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These are legends (sagas) about heroes greek form of history. After 12 000 b. c. the civilization came to an end and entered the: lost the ability to write, but legends formed throughout these. Dark age ages: by 8th century b. c. when greece rises again (rival period) Adopt writing system and build temples, etc. Legends are local myths with local characters based in a site where there is a remain of the mycenaean past: their tombs hero cult (tied stories to physical remains) They move from local significance (etiological) and now tied into a set of stories that are believed by everyone. Sometimes, attributes and timelines get mixed up. Only hellenistic roman period the stories became unified (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) him. Acrisius (king of argos) is told by an oracle that his grandson will kill folktale motif: succession. He locks away his daughter danae into a chamber before she is.
