CLAA06H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 06
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Pockets of greece are really rich in heroic saga and athens is one of them. Athens modern artistic rendition of a sculpture that survives from ancient greece. The myth is portraying is the birth of ericthonius remember pre midterm lecture. Is shows gaea handing the baby to athens. The region where athens is located is called attica. Autochthony it literally means of the earth itself or of that very land. You link yourself with gaea, one of the first goddesses. In other words they were proud to claim that they were natives. This is in contrast because most greek societies would say that they moved from somewhere else, and that they may be descendants of other people. The first king of attica was cecrops who was thought to be half man, half snake (snake = close to the earth). The original name of athens used to be cecropia.
