CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Radiance, Crius, Oedipus Complex
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Cla204h1 lecture 02 myths of creation: uranus, cronus, and zeus. Religion = an intrinsic part of culture. Greek mythology: doesn"t have beginning or an end. Is a system that tends to be coherent. Today"s lecture: greek version of the creation of the world. Nb 8th century bc: homer. Poems were interested in particular myth stories the trojan war and the events following it: greek alphabet. Originally from ascra, a small village in boeotia, the region west of attica (main city in boetia = thebes: ascra village of the famous mt. Wrote: theogony concerned with genealogy, origin of the gods, deals with the creation of the world, works and days interested in, for ex. , why humans work to survive. Creation myth tries to give an explanation of the underlying substance of the world: synchronic presentation of what the world is rather than using the chronological order.
