CLASS 40 Lecture 1: greek myth lecture notes
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Red gure pottery: first concept: anthropo morphism, 12 gods, they look and act like us, only more powerful, second concept: reciprocracy, helping friends and harming enemies. Everyone bribes him and he chooses aphrodite who offers sex: teaches that teens make bad decisions, all about moral connections, odysseus and the sirens: Snakeheads show the heads of lerna where people are fighting . According to euhemerus: not used today, inheritantly flawed over time, myth and history: Helikon: staff you hold as a speaker says your right to speak, poets claim they go into a trance where the muses go inside and speak through them at mt. He asks zeus to pick one and he realizes whats inside so he takes the fatty portion filled with bones. !8: hymn structure, invocation: invoke gods so they can hear you, story illustrating attributes: some characteristic of a god explained, farewell: god gets elevated to mt.
