CLT 3370 Lecture Notes - Made Man, Jar Jar Binks
20 Aug 2013
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Not in hesiod who gives no account of our origins. Scattered references in other authors: zeus, zeus and other gods, everything from same source, prometheus (2nd generation titan) Prometheus (fore learner) is equivalent to folktale character the trickster who likes to outwit the powerful. Prometheus, the song of titans lapetus and themis. Made man from earth and water (divine seed) Gifts of prometheus to mankind (civilizing art: math, astronomy, harnessing, building, seafaring, writing, calendar, medicine, prophecy, metallurgy. Prometheus offered sacrifice bundles to zeus and asked which zeus preferred. Outrages, zeus removes fire from the trees. Prometheus sneaks some fire in a fennel stalk to man. Prometheus punished by being tied to a pillar by strength (kratos) and. Violence at the eastern end of the black sea (caucasus mountains) where eagles ate his liver by day, which grew back at night. Zeus allows herakles/heracles to break the chains.
