CLT 3370 Chapter 1-4: Greek and Roman Mythology Lecture Notes 1
23 Dec 2015
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What is a myth? (working definition)= a traditional tale with collective importance. Classical= specifically the mythology of greek and roman. Cultural context of classical myth: history and society. Separated my mountains which mad pockets of land. Time periods: early/middle bronze age (3000-1600bc): the origin of the greeks. These people wrote, but we can"t read it. 1-open courtyard, 2-interesting arrangement of rooms-not symmetrical ,3- bull images. Trojan war (if it really happened it happened in this age) Gold face plate- it was a death mask. Called dark age, because they weren"t doing things with things that lasted. First time we could get into an ancient persons mind. Period we get the 2 very important poems. Homer- iliad and the odyssey (epic poetry). These stories were handed down through the centuries by story-telling/by mouth-orally. He wrote about where the universe came from. Theseus has to go to a labyrinth to kill a half man/half wolf.
