ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anatolia, Theogony, Sophocles
6 Feb 2018
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Created by imagination, not reasoning: myth can be morally ambivalent and even unacceptable (may involve murders, incest, rapes, etc. ) Questioning myth: 6th century bce, miletus (greek colony in asia minor), then italy (western greek colonies), hecataeus establishes the difference between myth and history (followed by. Herodotus, 5th century: a group of thinkers try to explain reality looking for a unifying objective principle of things (arch ) => philosophy, n. b. : unlike the greek peninsula, thanks to contacts with the populations, colonies made it possible to challenge the presuppositions of greek culture and religion. So-called pre-socratic philosophers : their inquiries, the cosmos (the universe as order , the principles governing its evolution, the nature of the human soul, the forces governing human life. The sophists: a copernican revolution : athens, 5th century b. c. e, (unlike pre-socratics) interested in the human world, nomos (customs, laws conventions, etc. regulating human society) instead of.
