CLA204H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
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Phases of the broad greek and roman classical period: early bronze age: 3000 bce to 1600 bce. Lends authority to the texts as well: daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory, necessary to tap into some kind of collective memory, hesiod"s i(cid:374)(cid:448)o(cid:272)atio(cid:374): (cid:862)(cid:271)reathe i(cid:374)spiratio(cid:374) i(cid:374)to (cid:373)e(cid:863) Importance and role of the muses: muses (cid:862)guide the (cid:449)ords(cid:863) of speakers, of importance to orators etc. as well as authors. Lear(cid:374) to speak i(cid:374) a (cid:862)s(cid:449)eet(cid:863) (cid:449)a(cid:455); (cid:449)ords (cid:862)like ho(cid:374)e(cid:455)(cid:863) In response, hesiod writes a poem about not freeloading: alternate rendition of the pandora story. 2: gods make pandora; handed over to epimetheus (afterthought, pandora has a jar full of some shit; she opens it and all the evils in the world are let loose from the jar; another aetiology of human suffering. Iron age: right now, according to hesiod; pretty shitty and unredeemable: nostalgia for the past, particularly the golden age. Mythologists and explains them via fundamental human whatever.
