HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lyric Poetry, Epic Poetry, Hellikon
29 Aug 2016
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Stories about hesiod and a hymn to the muses. Different ways of looking at the theogany. Links between the theogany and works and days. His name means he who produces a voice". His father, a merchant, lost his fortune and migrated from asia minor to. Hesiod was a shepherd until one day on mount hellikon, he encountered the. After his death, his body was retrieved by dolphins. Shows how we apprehend the world through our senses and our mental abilities like memory and intelligence. Describes the origin and development of the physical world. Both the world and various physical and mental states are imagined as gods. Some of these gods were abstractions; others were actually worshipped. Gives background to exodus from egypt by the israelites and why god gave them a collection of laws. The pentateuch features the pre-history of israel. Comprises first five books of the bible: genesis, exodus, leviticus,
