Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Atreus, Maenad, Pythian Games

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

Document Summary

The creator god (unknown) gave order to everything and formed the universe: elemental order: fire > air > earth > water. The creator created man as a superior intellectual mind: man looks up to heaven, other animals look down. Golden: there was no need for law, boundaries, armaments, people were just, happy at home, unaggressive, people ate from what the earth gave (no farms, eternal spring. Silver: saturn(chronos) is sent to the underworld and jove(zeus) rules the world, all 4 seasons, men built houses for shelter, farming came into being. Bronze: aggressive nature took hold, no evil yet. Jove was furious with the world of men, and said they need to be destroyed. Jove went to earth to see if it was as bad as he had heard. He came to an arcadian palace and the people worshipped him, but the lycaon mocked them. Lycaon set a feast for jove but it was of human flesh.