CLASS 2604 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Read theogony the part about the muses. Phoenicians: two groups: carthaginians/phoenicians, eastern lived in eastern mediterranean language is gone but one form survives today. Called themselves by the names of their cities byblos, tyre, sidon. Or just called themselves phoenicians as a group. Identified by their language and their religion, which focused on god. Most famous for traveling, went all over mediterranean and into. Some think they made it to south america and maybe north. Also circumnavigated africa up to red sea and up into strait of gibraltar: western counterparts carthaginians western mediterranean. Celtic language and celtic myth were reconstructed from later sources, christian stories, but with celtic characters: maeve originally a goddess, gets humanized in the stories, populated inter-regions of spain, france, bohemia (modern day czech. Republic: egyptians, old professor at cornell said that greeks were not real people just. Egyptians all culture of greeks derived from egyptians. Said egyptians were black africans: problems:
