[CLASSICS 1B03] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (26 pages long)
6 Feb 2017
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Sense of common history and common knowledge making sense of the world. All the myths that we know are through literature and all of those would have been transmitted orally. Make sense of the world and their part of the world. Shows us how myth is relevant in all forms of expression. Myth helped the greeks and romans make sense of the world. For them, not just fun stories, but history and demonstrate how they thought about their world. In literature they are subjected to very human emotions ex/ love, hate, etc. Zeus: king of olympians; father of many of them. Subjected to human desires, especially in the form of beautiful woman. Hera: wife and sister of zeus; queen of the olympians, but not mother to most of them. Keeps a watchful eye on zeus (often unsuccessful) Hermes: son of zeus; messenger of the gods; patron of merchants, travelers, thieves; escort souls to the underworld.
