CLA204H1 Lecture : lecture note
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Reading and looking at text looking at source, Many question is how we know these stories oral tradition stoped in rome, who tells it and where did we get it. Gain knowledge of greek and rooman myths and legends- main objective before apply theoritical frameworks. Learn to analyze ancient texts and works of art as sources for the study of mythology- least important first issue how we know the myth, if literray work when function why author incorporate myth. Ancient sources liiterature and art hisotry second is art as in coins painting etc. Heracles potrayed with club and very bulky, iconography, visual art is static cant tell story like literature can. See parallels within and among different myth traditions- cultures in contact with greeks such as eggyptians. Understand and apply some theoritcal approcahes to classs myth- near end of course scholars have been analyzing and figure what they mean why composed really mean task is still pursured in 19th and.
