HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homeric Hymns, Eleusinian Mysteries, Pomegranate
11 Dec 2017
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This is the lecture that tells the story of how zeus gave his daughter away (persephone), to his brother hades for marriage, but the mother demeter was furious. The poet homer, is the product of many years of oral story telling: it"s referring to a long poetic tradition, around 650 bc, and they were performed. They were most likely sung at the beginning of a major poets competition: these texts are not religious or sacred in any way. Eleusinian mysteries: what they o ered you was a way to embrace death without fear, no one actually knows what went on in these gatherings because anyone that has done it is now gone. This is why we have seasons because when persephone is in the underworld, demeter does not make grain until she comes back. Tartaros is seen as a place, not as a person. Eros is pretty much attraction, mainly to others.
