CLAS 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aeneid, Euripides, Solar Deity
12 Sep 2016
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The scholars interviewed in this video see mythology as a guide as well as a cultural mirror. How does this fit with your own view of your place in the. Be sure to use concrete examples from the film and your readings to back up your claims. When answering the question, you may take a comparative approach examining multiple myths from the video, or focus in detail on one of the myths discussed by the narrators. Myth explains why the world is at is is to ancient greeks and other cultures, human history, thought, poetry, literature. Minoan civ. in crete and mycenaean created basic foundation for myths we study today. Poets helped communicate the myths to us. 8th century bc it was written,used alphabet that greeks adapted and used vowel sounds which people originally didn"t have (homer and hesiod) Myths are more than stories, they explain the way life was shaped and why things happen.
