CAMS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amorgos, Semonides Of Amorgos, Homeric Hymns

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Hymns - praise in honor of a god o cultic - sung together by a chorus. Poetry sung to god in time of crisis ie. war, famine asking for help: rhapsodic - sung by single person story about gods about how great they are for entertainment. Homeric hymns - contributed to homer but not actually by that nigga detailed stories about the gods lives. Didactic poetry- meant for teaching: archaic/classical period- not filled with didactic. Ones that are in this period are based on morals: hesiod- works & days. Not sure if he exists like homer. Story about his life from the first person. He"s pretending to be a peasant sheppard to give context to the poem-persona. He had a father named perses and hesiod took it over. Wrote book to his brother on how to lead his life including farming. At the end there"s weird superstitious stuff: hellenistic- academic period.

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