CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mount Helicon, Theogony, Silver Age
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Explains why things are the way they are. E. g. , book of genesis; eve gets adam to eat the apple so god gives women suffering during childbirth. Hesiod uses these words often to describe the characters. Literary genre (theogony and works and days considered epics) Elevated style and language, sounds fancier than normal. Cultural significance (tells the story of history, or important cultural characters) The poet sees himself as the vessel for the muses, not his own creativity. And they breathed into me a voice divine . All the stories start with talking about the muses because they said that you must. The muses help guide the words of people in positions of power (lords) It is helpful to be able to speak articulately and will result in respect. And from his mouth flow words like honey . The honey around the medicine analogy, the honey is the nice part.
