CLST 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter Preface: Dactylic Hexameter, Babrius, Homeric Hymns
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Does not provide a continuous modern retelling or complete pictures. Different reasons for writing it as well. Summarize, but slightly different interpretation (like grsj 224 oral folktale thing) 7th to the 5th bc: earliest source for greek myth. Hesiod"s poem composed in the meter of epic (dactylic hexameter) Other poets are lyric poets cause they were originally sung. Callimachus(belong to the hellenistic period, a period marked by experimentation and a love of novelty), cleanthes, homeric. Prayers to god and give us insight into the religious life, and mythological narrative. Babrius, bion & theocritus (belong to the hellenistic period,a period marked by experimentation and a love of novelty) Babrius turned aesop"s fables into verse, only touches upon myth and religion occasionally. Attempted to summarized and comment upon earlier mythical traditions. Used early mythographers" work, tried to synthesize (like. Apollodorus), or collected stories that sometimes dealt with a particular theme (like parthenius & antoninus liberalis) Arrian, diodorus of sicily, herodotus, plutarch, thucydides.
