CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Enûma Eliš, Archaic Greece, Kumarbi
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Greeks and trojans are diferent but also very similar in language, but diferent in culture. (cid:1) (cid:1) Comes as part of increasing trade and communicaions between greece and foreign cultures: egypt, asia minor and near ear. Came as part of increasing greek prosperity and cosmopolitanism. (cid:1) (cid:1) Mycenaen alphabet is linear b and is lost with the last of the bronze age. The phoenician alphabet is adapted to greek sounds. (cid:1) (cid:1) I am the cup of nestor, good to drink from. Aphrodite will straightaway seize, whoever drinks this cup. First writen greek which is reference to homer. Previous art style, geometric style (900 700bc): highly paterned, angular, earliest are non-representaional. Orientalizing art is incorporated more fantasically elements, animals; more lively and exploratory less regulated; loral paterns. It is an atempt to say it"s a carving of the birth of athena. (cid:1) (cid:1) Theogony = theos (god) + gon (birth)
