CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Original Sin
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Storyime: there is a special place for deformed/crippled people (story about dates) The way a culture tells the story of where humans come from tells us what they believe about human nature and what it means to be human. Gods diving breath gives the clay to life. Clay humans made out of clay by obetella. Works and days: 5 races of humans. Bronze (heroes), iron (men: if certain things hadn"t happened, humans would have been higher on the coninuum of divinity back in the day, people were heroes. Now (in hesiod"s day) there are only people: hesiod lived in archaic age, and tried to explain that life was diicult because we are the race of iron. The gods have intenionally make life hard to reward those who achieve things through honorable ways in accordance with zeus. Perses is hesiod"s brother: they would share the inheritance (land/crops, perses took more than his share and used some of it to bribe.
