CMLT316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Polytheism, Utnapishtim
15 Mar 2018
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Man made from clay and water; but not by zeus himself (short adulthood after golden age( infancy); mother looks over humans; didn"t show the gods proper respect which leads to them to destroy them) Bronze age -> (loved bronze, had homes made of bronze, even had arms made out of bronze) (the warlike feeling destroyed the humans by themselves) Heroic age(humans went to hell with hades or to heaven with the isle of the blessed) (hades was a miserable place/ person) Leaves the heroic age off the list because it was the odd one out" of the list the list consists of ages of metals so takes off the heroic age to make it seem more real. Ovid probably thinks that there are no heroes and they don"t exist lives in post julius caesar world lot of war and bloodshed at the time. Zeus has to assert himself as chief god.
