CLAS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ancient Greek Literature, Preface, Microsoft Office Shared Tools
16 Jul 2016
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They are on a mountain helicon in greece: heights of helicon, the summit of helicon they dance o. On helicon"s peak, the muses are poets i. 1. This first section regarding the muses provokes us to think i. 2. about art. Even though all the muses do is dance and sing, they are not lazy. Even though the 9 of them are alone on the mountain top, they are not antisocial o o. Who is the student, and what does he learn? i. 1. ii. Hesiod is the student and he is a shepherd. Hesiod is using this motif and then turning the shepherd into a literary artist. The lesson that the muses teach the shepherd is how to make good word art. How to tell a story with a point. They are such good word artists that they can make falsehoods equivalent to true. What kind of art they make, for whom, and their effects their art has on its audiences i. 1.
