HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Aeschylus, Liminality, Polis
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The mark of liminality is betwixt and between, also ambiguity (reversals) and ambivalence. Prometheus is not a god, he is a titan (liminality: titans are intermediate between gods and mortals, bcs neither) Hesiod very religious - practices syncretism merging religions. Hedios and aeschylus (later) are different because they are from different poleis (city states) and because they are 200 years apart. Sophocles ode to man is about what humans and what they can do on their own without gods. Hesiod vs aeschylus main difference because of cultural relevance changes what the community emphasizes, but the myth itself barely changes. People from aeschylus"s time thought that technology was required for living better. Main thing to notice in prometheus bound (aeschylus"s play that. Prometheus is good and zeus is bad compare this to ode to man, similar) The logic of his myth is that it is not logical, it depends on deceit.
