CLS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hieros Gamos, Labours Of Hercules, Erechtheion
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Binary opposition - structuralist > the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. Oral tradition - age of bards and story telling about the warrior years of greece ex: Linear b - clay tablets inscribed with writing have been found on the mainland which held evidence that the mycenaeans and minoans worshiped fertility gods. Theogony - are the works of hesiod, the boeotian poet of the late eighth century. His theogony is our most important source or the relationship of zeus and the olympians to their predecessors, the titans, and other early divinities; it also records how zeus became supreme and organized the olympian pantheon. Works and days - another work of hesiod that has even more important information on mythology. Homeric hymns - 33 poems composed in honor of olympian deities, most of which embody at least one myth of the god or goddess.
