CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Petasos, Cronus, Thrice

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Apollo (twins with artemis zeus and leto) chapter 11. Attributes: bow and lyre: he likes stringed things he holds a lyre (looks like a harp) Cattle are: after hermes gives apollo the lyre they reconcile. A lot of the mystery religions had to do with orpheus. Mystery religions were private religions and not state religions. Attributes: thetrian cap and lyre he is from thrice threcean origin, he calmed the beasts with his lyre, people around him are thricians because they have funny hats on. The myth: birth: from one of the muses (mother is calliope, in charge of lyric music) & father oeagrus (threcean river god) or. Pictures: depict nymths looking at the head of orpheus. Theban saga about heros rather than gods. To function like history because these stories explain what happened in the past. History and mythology have the same functions especially the sagas / legends to explain the past.