Classical Studies 3211F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eshu, Carl Jung, African Diaspora
12 Sep 2016
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Greece has influenced all of the western world leading into the modern age: they were a culture that valued deception. How peisistratus cheated his way to the top: he was a tyrant of athens. 561-527 bce: expelled from athens twice, he dressed a woman as the goddess athena to make the people think that he had been chosen by the goddess to lead them. His tyranny was blessed by the gods. On the one hand there is cheating and on the other hand there is knowledge: there are certain differences between them but they are essentially one in the same. Zeus acquires his status and power through deception: he knows how to cheat and that helped him make his way to the top, people believed in these myths and viewed them as fact. People were being influenced by gods who cheated. Prometheus: brought fire to man which made him an enemy to zeus.
