HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Anchises, Socratic Dialogue, Homeric Hymns
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Through you all living creatures are conceived and, once born, visit the sun"s rays. Since you alone govern the workings of the universe and without you nothing emerges into the shining realm of light or becomes productive or pleasurable . Aphrodite had a step up on all the gods because she had never slept with someone else, but then. Zeus made her sleep with anchises and she lost that step up. Aphrodite and him will have kids and their kids will always be fruitful. 4th century: prose, esp. oratory and philosophy. Tragedy had faded, and became truly fictional. In the 4th century greek myths were put to different uses. The dialogues of plato myth in philosophy. Plato was a philosopher, and wrote in the 4th century. Had only conversations tried & executed on charge of corrupting the youth and impiety for introducing new gods that were not already recognized by the city (athens). Followers wrote socratic dialogues in 4th century.
