PS268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Homeric Hymns, Enûma Eliš, Mycenaean Greece
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Ar201: greek and roman mythos lecture notes. Entertainment reflects human concerns that transcend politics, language, and religion. Evidence for myths found in literary genres of poetry and drama. Myths are highly flexible with many variations of the same myth. Remote settings deities are larger than life, patriarchal society. Athena: goddess of war, wisdom, and weaving, born from the head of zeus, represents rational force of civilized order. Dionysus: god of wine and theatre, born from zeus" thigh, represents irrational force of human nature and physical nature. All gods descend from gaea (earth) and ouranos (sky) Myth: a traditional story set in the remote past and involving actions of devine being/human heroes which conveyed a set of beliefs, derived from mythos something someone says . Myth characteristics: plot, characters, setting, traditional story - trado handed over or handed down was transmitted orally from one generation to the next, anonymous origins, more than just one version.
