CLAS 170 Lecture : Greek and Roman Mythology Course - Full Notes
31 Oct 2013
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Tells us how the tellers think of the world. Tells us they think the world should be. Scholarship dealing with myth but also a particular body of myths. Helicon: theogony deals with origin and genealogies of the ancient greek gods, works and days tells us how thing got to be the way they are now. Not written down before 600s bce in hebrew. Describes creation in ways that are really useful for comparison when we discuss greek and roman mythology. Wrote the metamorphous, amongst other works, as a kind of compilation of all greek and. Did not write poems so much as sing them. Philosopher who wrote the chrestomathy, a kind of hand book for writers which contained sympathy. Wrote on mythological subjects having to do with homers iliad and odyssey. Wrote bibliotheca, a handbook on greek myths. The most ancient of three tragic playwrights. Left us 7 plays and 400 fragments. Won 13 times at the city dionysian.
