Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smart Guy, Hephaestus, Anger

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Heracles is greatest hero of greeks and son of zeus and mortal woman. Only freed the eagle with the will of zeus, and allowed this to give glory to heracles for liberating prometheus. All offend zeus, make him angry and are punished by him. Prometheus(cid:495) name means (cid:494)forethought(cid:495): compare metis (zeus first wife, she represented intelligence, met in both their names links prometheus to cunning intelligence. 1st offence: the division of the sacrificial meat at mekone (theogony 317- Feast including gods and mortal men: mekone is mythical place, were negotiating at mekone, don(cid:495)t know what about, butchered ox and served it up. Zeus and human beings gets mad something else. This was the trick: good parts disguised as bad, and bad parts disguised as good for, zeus recognized the fraud, but took the bones portion and then, zeus says (cid:498)how unevenly you divided the portions(cid:499) and. Prometheus says (cid:498)you can choose whichever you want(cid:499)