Classical Studies 2200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sarpedon, Clytemnestra, Lycians
1 Apr 2014
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In hesiod: prometheus (result of his story is lawki, theogony (structure at the end of the story coincides with lawki, works and days (what it means to live this life well (farming) in lawki) How humans integrate in the gods world. When we were gender free, humans lived forever. One generation need to take over from previous. Prometheus made us mortal, zeus made us sexual. Gods reproduce sexually, then there are more gods and they come into conflict. At the end of the theogony, they need to be gods we worship. For humans, if we have the level of culture that gods do, it would be too much for us, if humans have the same level of nature as animals do then it would be too much. For greeks, society doesn"t equal culture per se, but it"s a mediation between culture and nature. Golden mean = just enough culture and just enough nature.
