HIS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Delian League, Epic Poetry, Archaic Greece
Document Summary
The core of judaism and of jewish self-identity as a people chosen by god. The first five books of the bible. The life of the spartan citizen was geared toward maintaining a constant state of military preparedness. Sleep around as long as her husband gives consent. Telling his brother to stay out of trouble. Prometheus steals the art of making fire from zeus. Zeus is angry because he was the only one who had this and had power over everything. Gods just barely have domination over human beings. Zeus has thought up dismal sorrows for mortals. Women are the fault for human evil. Pandora comes to earth with a box of sorrows and is taught to be seductive. Not disciplined enough to not open the box. Hope is the only one to stay in the jar. Gods manipulate humanity into causing their own destruction. Epic poem part of school book tradition. Describes a war between the greeks and the trojans.
