CLA204H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ars Amatoria, Erinyes, Georgics
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Offered to euripedes by zeus and he accepts human race is stuck with women. Pandora"s box: contains all the bad things in the world: metis (94, 100, 116, 151) first wife of zeus. Metis was pregnant with athena when zeus learned from uranus and gaea that his wife"s next child, after athena, would depose him. Swallowed by zeus when pregnant with athena. Metis" cleverness became a part of his own being: nietzsche (298-299, 684) Dionysus played a prominent role in his writings. The birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music nietzsche sharply criticized the prevailing view of greek art and civilization. His analysis of the greek origin of tragedy led to the view that the creative spirit of the greeks was dionysus: golden age (32, 96, 134, 142) The classical period (golden age: epicenter is athens, the most influential thinkers, artists and politicians worked during the classical period.
