CLAS 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bronze Age, Cyclops, Pegasus
15 Sep 2016
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Day #11: poseidon, monsters sea deities, and group group divinities. Maritime trade and travel is important in greece. What to do: fish in the spring, board up in the winter. Bronze age has the first record of sails. Son of pylos, and grandson to poseidon. Thetis pleads with zeus to save her son in the trojan war. Galatea rejects a cyclops, and he kills her bf. Amphitrite marries poseidon (often see on a chariot, veiled, and pulled by sea creatures) They have tiriton, always seen blowing a conch or holding a trident. Tyro: belarus (founder of pylos) and pelias (send jason to get the fleece) Contest for athens: athena is sophisticated, poseidon is more wild, both contribute to the city"s identity.
