CLASSIC 45A Lecture 2: Creation-Part 1: Historical Setting, Alternative Stories
27 Oct 2017
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10:00 am: begin on margins, will be focusing on content later. Linear b (c. 5000 clary tablets): deciphered by michael ventris in 1952 as a form of early. Important sanctuaries or rituals literature: we have same system regardless of where they are in the same way as the. Iron age: dates: 1150-750 bce, comes after late bronze age, center: ascra on the slopes of mt. Helicon is the home of the muse: sources: almost nothing survives from the era. Hesiod"s works and days was composed at the end of ia. Alternative creation stories: philosophers: e. g. thales of miletus (624-546 bce), heraclitus of ephesus (535-475 bce, one primary substance (e. g. water or air) is substituted for or converted to all other substances. Heraclitus posited logos as the rational principle of the universe. Other alternative creation stories: hesiod"s theogony: generations of divine beings (dated c. 750 and 650 bce, orphics: group of believers in the teachings of orpheus (5th bce-2nd ce).
