HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erebus, Cosmogony, Aeneid
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The orphic (greek) cosmogony: more of a monotheistic story. Prince of city troy, which is modern day turkey. He was in troy when the greeks fought trojan war (1250 bce) Exile driven on by fate (virgil, aeneid) Romulus opened the city of rome as a refuge for people looking for a new start. Asylum: a motley mobw/ no distinction between slave and free (liby) I cannot stand a geekified rome where the syrian river orontes has for a long time now been polluting rome"s river (juvenal. Wealthy landowners, employing slaves, displaced citizen-farmers, who supported demagogues and warlords. Farmer came into city and became part of urban. Create models of questioning that we can then use to question ourselves. Iliad can help us live our lives with great clarity. Some see this love as friendly, some as homosexual. Patrocolous begs achilles to let him help the greeks by disguising himself.
