CLAS-C - Classical Studies CLAS-C 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cronus, Dactylic Hexameter, Cosmogony

• School: IUPUI
• Department: CLAS-C - Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS-C - Classical Studies CLAS-C 205
• Professor: Glenn Synder

Document Summary

800-480: alphabet phonemic script theogony is production of the gods . For most greek myths, cosmogony is included within theogony (versus theogony within cosmogony) Aoidos [ah-ee-dos]: singer, bard, or oral poet. Aoid [ah ee dee]: song, normally in meter] E. g. , epic (related to epos, world; tale ; or, in plural epoi, verses; lines ), Which was normally in dactylic hexameter (one meter) ( fingerlike six-count) *p 65: a long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of heroes social context: entertainment for the (free, male, citizen) aristoi ( best; nobles ), especially at a symposium. B. c. e: father repatriated from ionia [central w. asia. Minor/turkey], and hence was probably an inheritor of earlier. Mycenaean myths and legends: an aoidos who narrates events at base of mt. Helicon, which is a mountain to the west of thebes [boeotia: extant written workds. Works and days: (sometimes wrongly ascribed to hesiod is another text shield of heracles)