HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Homeric Hymns, Bronze Age, Iliad
11 Dec 2017
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Myth: is like a performance: myth was something that was evolving and malleable. The singer in the beginning (statue of him) is the cycladic bard. Muthos, mythos, and myth are all the same. All of the texts that we discussed were made in the archaic age, while some of them discussed the bronze age. One of the things myth does is teach us how to behave towards the gods. In the terms of the gods, their timai is their domain, the places where they are honoured. If you wanted to have a good marriage for example, you would sacri ce to hera. Athena was sprung from the head of zeus. This exchange between prometheus and zeus set a pattern of sacri ce, and then every time humans want to do something for the gods, they sacri ce. Zeus ultimately created pandora because of this, to punish the humans.
