Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hyperbole, Bsc Young Boys, Odysseus

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: Aara Suksi

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Heroes: criteria: for greeks hero meant something different. It is a religious term: divinity, dead you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e a hero u(cid:374)til (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e died. You need all three criteria: memory preser(cid:448)ed/(cid:272)ulti(cid:448)ated (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:272)ult(cid:863)(cid:895, anyone could become a hero cult: a group of people who are preserving some belief system or their founder and wanna remember them. You don"t have to be a powerful hero. You cant look at a person when theyre alive and say theyre gonna be a hero. Hard to look at them and for certain say that person will never become a hero either. Anyone can be a hero: mythical and historical, proliferation of cults in classical period, stories combining anecdote, hyperbole, and facts, euth(cid:455)(cid:373)os" statue: it was claimed that his dad was a river god. After he was dead that was something that ppl claimed. And it says (the new line) he did all these things so mortals could observe him.