CLASSICS 2D03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 84 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2D03
• Professor: stephen russell

Document Summary

This is an unanswerable question: gods favour humans they liked, prometheus associated with creation of mankind. I(cid:374) greek so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:449)s sa(cid:455) (cid:858)io(cid:859) i(cid:374)stead of (cid:373)oo. Io goes around the world whenever she mates with a man. Io meets prometheus when she is still a cow and tells him her story: gods know prometheus knows so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:271)ut he (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t tell, she (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t fi(cid:374)ish (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause she starts (cid:373)ooi(cid:374)g. In this play prometheus is shown as very good and gods are shown as very bad (very human-like: play: suppliant maidens, agenor is kind of tyre, daughter is europa. You (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t fi(cid:374)d her, (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t go ho(cid:373)e, so (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou see a pig (cid:449)ith spots (cid:373)ake a ho(cid:373)e there. Defeat a python there, take its teeth, plant them into the ground, they become his soldiers (his people) 1000 years before: a herald from egyptus comes and asks for them back, pelasgus says wait, many variations of the story from here.