CLASSICS 2D03 Final: Classics 2D03 Full Notes
4 Jan 2017
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Lecture #03: friday, september 11, 2015 creation: gods and their nature: cosmogony: the origin of the world, kosmos = world", genesis, hebrew birth or origin in general, theogony (by hesiod): Humans occupy only a small part of the tale. Invocation of the muses: very first part of the poem; Muses are the spirit / goddesses of art daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory) Ancient poetry very common to begin by calling upon the muses and it is also important (since it provides divine weight to the work and the poet needs to connect himself to something divine). If you"re going to write a tale involving gods, it gives your work more legitimacy to invoke gods: art in the greek tradition is the combination of remembering and divine power (i. e. zeus and. Mnemosyne (memory: at the beginning there was only chaos (i. e. a gap; a yawning void not disorder).
