CLAS 2220 Lecture 10: CLAS2200_9-23-2015
10 May 2016
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How to make good art: hesiod"s muses, students, and literary manifesto. Actual top of the mountain: dancing o, on helicon"s peak, the muses are poets. make =greek, poieo = poet or poetry: latin word ars is art in english, ars=poieo. Go from poets on top of peak to teachers on base: student of art (22-34) Muses say we can make falsehoods that are equivalent to truths. How to tell a myth: teachers of art (35-103) What kind of art they make, for whom, and the affects it has on the audience: for zeus" mind (35-52) Via a cast of divine teachers: zeus" ultimate purpose for the muses (53-74) Zeus + memory at freedom = muses. Inspire people: via kings (75-92, via singers and poets (93-103, work of art (104-end)
