CLASSIC 45A Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Zeus, Aphrodite, Prometheus
CLASSIC 45A
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Classics 45A October 4
● Greek stops in 146 BCE when Rome conquered Greece.
● Metamorphoses means to change form.
○ meta=something that comes after
○ morph=shape
○ A shape that comes after the preexisting state.
○ Transformation
● Lupacapitalium
○ Romulus and Remus are brothers who killed each other.
● Theme of Rape
○ Rape means to seize (to take away). Seizure.
○ One seizes, the other resists. We have the hunter and the hunted. Pursuer and
pursued.
○ One desires another strongly, too strongly where they can’t rationalize their
emotions and just act on them with brute force. Evokes idea of passion behind
rape.
○ Passion is associated with Aphrodite. Goddess of lust.
○ Female is chased so she resists,
○ It is thought that the gods oversee people's emotions. It pits the individuals
against contradictory gods.
○ Female either acquiescence () or metamorphosis of woman. Usually a god feels
bad for woman and changes her.
○ Is woman a victim? Sacrifice?
■ Spiritual salvation- if a female is chosen, even to be raped by a god, could
be a badge of honor. Could be beginning a certain line of mortals. Now
beginning a clan.
○ Woman is looking the other way. When there as an abduction/seduction
unwanted the eyes don't look at each other. If you look away you don't love, if the
gaze of 2 ppl meets it is the beginning of seduction.
■ Looking away is a sign of lack of desire.
○ Sexual connotation of rape because pursuer is holding the pursued by the waist.
That is what the pursuer wants to take.
○ In apollo and daphne pic, can see Daphne turning into a laurel tree.
● Seduction/abduction: rape of Helen.
○ Can see people looking away in disgust.
○ Helen was given to Paris as reward for picking ___ as most beautiful god.
○ There are accounts that say Helen fell in love with Paris.
○ Was she raped or in love? Hard to know.
● Powerpoint 2
● Part 1: historical setting, alternative stories
○ The Mycenaeans and Minoans are 2 different thriving civilizations during the
Bronze area at same time. Both had militaries and went to wars w each other.
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○ Because all the Greeks (mycenaeans, minoans, etc) all thought of god's similarly.
Panhelliasm
■ Spheres of influence
● You are god of lust, you are god of love, etc.
■ Activities
● You hunt, you fuck
■ Associates of olympus and earth
● People associate w each other.
■ Important sanctuaries and rituals for god's.
● Iron Age 1150-750 BCE
○ Hesiod comes from iron age. Mt. Helicon, a baron mt. Place of muses.
● Alternative Creation Stories to heithaus
○ Thales and Heraclitus are philosophers
○ Nature comes together. Nature is thought to be the most important god, elements
come together and have a proliferation.
○ Heraclitus used logos as rational principle of universe. There is reason behind
phenomenons. God is reason.
○ Hesiod's Theogony talks about generations of divine beings. When we have
sense that things begin elemental and become more complicated w time, and at
some point solidify.
○ Orphics: believe Chronus created an egg w male and female natures in it.
● Orpheus went to underworld to get Eurydice. If he looks at her he loses her. Woman has
a green cloak around her to show she's dead. Her eyes are closed, death asleep. She
can’t keep up with him, she is hunched over and he is dragging her.
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Document Summary
Greek stops in 146 bce when rome conquered greece. A shape that comes after the preexisting state. Romulus and remus are brothers who killed each other. Rape means to seize (to take away). One desires another strongly, too strongly where they can"t rationalize their emotions and just act on them with brute force. It is thought that the gods oversee people"s emotions. Female either acquiescence () or metamorphosis of woman. Usually a god feels bad for woman and changes her. Spiritual salvation- if a female is chosen, even to be raped by a god, could be a badge of honor. Could be beginning a certain line of mortals. When there as an abduction/seduction unwanted the eyes don"t look at each other. If you look away you don"t love, if the gaze of 2 ppl meets it is the beginning of seduction. Looking away is a sign of lack of desire.