HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Greek Mythology, Mythology
11 Dec 2017
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The man playing the harp is the cycladic harper, we know very little about him except that his time was that of art. All of myth was rst performed as songs. This song culture predates written history by quite a few millennia. Zeus: the zeus shown to us is called the artemesion zeus, because he was found o in a ship wreck. Ecology of greece: mountains are very large in the greek imagination, these mountains create passageways, and blockages between lands, mountains were wild, dangerous places in ancient greece. There is such di erent climates in greece that greece has been said to have micro regions . Micro ecology: a settlement with its own distinctive identity based on the resources and agriculture that are found within in. Your local place had its own rules and way of life, and sometimes even its own religion based on what is located around it.
