CLAS 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Twelve Olympians, Cup-Bearer, Eileithyia
15 Sep 2016
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Made up notes from natalie and elsy. Along the lines of zeus"s exploits- women were frowned upon if they were unfaithful. Gold: time of cronos, were close to the gds, never aged, died in their sleep, paired all the time, eventually became spirits. #silver failed experiment, lower than gold, didn"t live long. Bronze: used tools and weapons, violent, killed eachother, similar to the bronze age, globalization, war, military. Heros: honorable warriors, subject of many myths and sagas, special place with. Iron: contemporary greeks, life is nothing but work, grows old quickly, do not honor parents or selves, do not worship the gods. Prometheus sides with zeus in the battle against the titans, but he still liked the humans. Stole fire to give to the humans. Made a sacrifice of bore and fat to honor the gods. Liver is eaten every night by eagles and regrown for all eternity. Hesita: kept flames safe, eldest, rejects apollo and poseidon, vows chastity, demoted.
